minor qcow2 compression improvements
v6 cover minor qcow2 compression improvements
Even though v5 was posted earlier today, it was worth a respin:
- 2/6: add R-b [Berto]
- 4/6, 6/6: improve commit messages [Max]
- 5/6: new patch, with an iotests proving that 4/6 is a bug fix [Max]
The new test is rather slow (nearly 90 seconds for me using tmpfs) unless it skips entirely (such as testing on ext4); ideas for speeding it up are welcome (translation: maybe qemu should optimize the search for the next available cluster to allocate, and/or qemu-img check should be faster at reporting leaked clusters)
001/6:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Prefer byte-based calls into bs->file' 002/6:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Document some maximum size constraints' 003/6:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Reduce REFT_OFFSET_MASK'
004/6:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Don't allow overflow during cluster allocation' 005/6:[down] 'iotests: Add new test 214 for max compressed cluster offset' 006/6:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Avoid memory over-allocation on compressed images'
Eric Blake (6):
qcow2: Prefer byte-based calls into bs->file
qcow2: Document some maximum size constraints
qcow2: Reduce REFT_OFFSET_MASK
qcow2: Don't allow overflow during cluster allocation
iotests: Add new test 214 for max compressed cluster offset
qcow2: Avoid memory over-allocation on compressed images
docs/interop/qcow2.txt | 40 +++++++++++++++++-- block/qcow2.h | 8 +++- block/qcow2-cluster.c | 32 +++++++++------ block/qcow2-refcount.c | 27 ++++++++----- block/qcow2.c | 2 +- tests/qemu-iotests/214 | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/214.out | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/group | 1 + 8 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/214 create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/214.out
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PATCH v6 1/6 qcow2: Prefer byte-based calls into bs->file
We had only a few sector-based stragglers left; convert them to use our preferred byte-based accesses.
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v5: commit message tweak
v2: indentation fix
--- block/qcow2-cluster.c | 5 ++--- block/qcow2-refcount.c | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
block/qcow2-cluster.c +2 -3
@@ -1616,13 +1616,12 @@ int qcow2_decompress_cluster(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t cluster_offset) }BLKDBG_EVENT (bs->file,BLKDBG_READ_COMPRESSED ); - ret =bdrv_read (bs->file, coffset >>9 , s->cluster_data, - nb_csectors); + ret =bdrv_pread (bs->file, coffset, s->cluster_data, csize);if (ret <0 ) {return ret; }if (decompress_buffer (s->cluster_cache, s->cluster_size, - s->cluster_data + sector_offset, csize) <0 ) { + s->cluster_data, csize) <0 ) {return -EIO ; } s->cluster_cache_offset = coffset;
block/qcow2-refcount.c +3 -3
@@ -2359,8 +2359,8 @@ write_refblocks: on_disk_refblock = (void *)((char *) *refcount_table + refblock_index * s->cluster_size); - ret =bdrv_write (bs->file, refblock_offset /BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE , - on_disk_refblock, s->cluster_sectors); + ret =bdrv_pwrite (bs->file, refblock_offset, on_disk_refblock, + s->cluster_size);if (ret <0 ) {fprintf (stderr,"ERROR writing refblock: %s\n" ,strerror (-ret)); goto fail;
@@ -2582,7 +2582,7 @@ fail:* - 0 if writing to this offset will not affect the mentioned metadata * - a positive QCow2MetadataOverlap value indicating one overlapping section * - a negative value (-errno) indicating an error while performing a check, -* e.g. when bdrv_read failed on QCOW2_OL_INACTIVE_L2 +* e.g. when bdrv_pread failed on QCOW2_OL_INACTIVE_L2 */ int qcow2_check_metadata_overlap (BlockDriverState *bs,int ign,int64_t offset,int64_t size)
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PATCH v6 2/6 qcow2: Document some maximum size constraints
In reply to Eric BlakeAlthough off_t permits up to 63 bits (8EB) of file offsets, in practice, we're going to hit other limits first. Document some of those limits in the qcow2 spec, and how choice of cluster size can influence some of the limits.
While at it, notice that since we cannot map any virtual cluster to any address higher than 64 PB (56 bits) (due to the current L1/L2 field encoding stopping at bit 55), it makes little sense to require the refcount table to access host offsets beyond that point. Mark the upper bits of the refcount table entries as reserved to match the L1/L2 table, with no ill effects, since it is unlikely that there are any existing images larger than 64PB in the first place, and thus all existing images already have those bits as 0. If 64PB proves to be too small in the future, we could enlarge all three uses of bit 55 into the reserved bits at that time. (For reference, ext4 with 4k blocks caps files at 16PB.)
However, there is one limit that reserved bits don't help with: for compressed clusters, the L2 layout requires an ever-smaller maximum host offset as cluster size gets larger, down to a 512 TB maximum with 2M clusters.
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v5: even more wording tweaks
v4: more wording tweaks
v3: new patch
--- docs/interop/qcow2.txt | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
docs/interop/qcow2.txt +37 -3
@@ -40,7 +40,17 @@ The first cluster of a qcow2 image contains the file header: with larger cluster sizes. 24 - 31: size - Virtual disk size in bytes + Virtual disk size in bytes. + + Note: with a 2 MB cluster size, the maximum + virtual size is 2 EB (61 bits) for a sparse file, + but other sizing limitations in refcount and L1/L2 + tables mean that an image cannot have more than 64 + PB (56 bits) of populated clusters (assuming the + image does not first hit other limits such as a + file system's maximum size). With a 512 byte + cluster size, the maximum virtual size drops to + 128 GB (37 bits). 32 - 35: crypt_method 0 for no encryption
@@ -326,6 +336,15 @@ in the image file. It contains pointers to the second level structures which are called refcount blocks and are exactly one cluster in size. +All qcow2 metadata, including the refcount table and refcount blocks, +must currently reside at host offsets below 64 PB (56 bits) (if the +underlying protocol can even be sized that large); this limit could be +enlarged by putting reserved bits into use, but only if a similar +limit on L1/L2 tables is revisited at the same time. While a larger +cluster size theoretically allows the refcount table to cover more +host offsets, in practice, other inherent limits will constrain the +maximum image size before the refcount table is full. + Given a offset into the image file, the refcount of its cluster can be obtained as follows:
@@ -341,7 +360,7 @@ Refcount table entry: Bit 0 - 8: Reserved (set to 0) - 9 - 63: Bits 9-63 of the offset into the image file at which the + 9 - 55: Bits 9-55 of the offset into the image file at which the refcount block starts. Must be aligned to a cluster boundary.
@@ -349,6 +368,8 @@ Refcount table entry: been allocated. All refcounts managed by this refcount block are 0. + 56 - 63: Reserved (set to 0) + Refcount block entry (x = refcount_bits - 1): Bit 0 - x: Reference count of the cluster. If refcount_bits implies a
@@ -365,6 +386,17 @@ The L1 table has a variable size (stored in the header) and may use multiple clusters, however it must be contiguous in the image file. L2 tables are exactly one cluster in size. +The L1 and L2 tables have implications on the maximum virtual file +size; a larger cluster size is required for the guest to have access +to more space. Furthermore, a virtual cluster must currently map to a +host offset below 64 PB (56 bits) (this limit could be enlarged by +putting reserved bits into use, but only if a similar limit on +refcount tables is revisited at the same time). Additionally, with +larger cluster sizes, compressed clusters have a smaller limit on host +cluster mappings (a 2M cluster size requires compressed clusters to +reside below 512 TB (49 bits), where enlarging this would require an +incompatible layout change). + Given a offset into the virtual disk, the offset into the image file can be obtained as follows:
@@ -427,7 +459,9 @@ Standard Cluster Descriptor: Compressed Clusters Descriptor (x = 62 - (cluster_bits - 8)): Bit 0 - x-1: Host cluster offset. This is usually _not_ aligned to a - cluster or sector boundary! + cluster or sector boundary! If cluster_bits is + small enough that this field includes bits beyond + 55, those upper bits must be set to 0. x - 61: Number of additional 512-byte sectors used for the compressed data, beyond the sector containing the offset
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PATCH v6 3/6 qcow2: Reduce REFT_OFFSET_MASK
In reply to Eric BlakeMatch our code to the spec change in the previous patch - there's no reason for the refcount table to allow larger offsets than the L1/L2 tables. In practice, no image has more than 64PB of allocated clusters anyways, as anything beyond that can't be expressed via L2 mappings to host offsets.
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v4: new patch
--- block/qcow2.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
block/qcow2.h +1 -1
@@ -443,7 +443,7 @@ typedef enum QCow2MetadataOverlap {#define L2E_OFFSET_MASK 0x00fffffffffffe00ULL#define L2E_COMPRESSED_OFFSET_SIZE_MASK 0x3fffffffffffffffULL -#define REFT_OFFSET_MASK 0xfffffffffffffe00ULL +#define REFT_OFFSET_MASK 0x00fffffffffffe00ULLstatic inline int64_t start_of_cluster (BDRVQcow2State *s,int64_t offset) {
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PATCH v6 4/6 qcow2: Don't allow overflow during cluster allocation
In reply to Eric BlakeOur code was already checking that we did not attempt to allocate more clusters than what would fit in an INT64 (the physical maximimum if we can access a full off_t's worth of data). But this does not catch smaller limits enforced by various spots in the qcow2 image description: L1 and normal clusters of L2 are documented as having bits 63-56 reserved for other purposes, capping our maximum offset at 64PB (bit 55 is the maximum bit set). And for compressed images with 2M clusters, the cap drops the maximum offset to bit 48, or a maximum offset of 512TB. If we overflow that offset, we would write compressed data into one place, but try to decompress from another, which won't work.
It's actually possible to prove that overflow can cause image corruption without this patch; I'll add the iotests separately in the next commit.
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v6: improve commit message, now that iotests is possible [Max]
v3: use s->cluster_offset_mask instead of open-coding it [Berto], use MIN() to clamp offset on small cluster size, add spec patch first to justify clamping even on refcount allocations
--- block/qcow2.h | 6 ++++++ block/qcow2-refcount.c | 21 ++++++++++++++------- 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
block/qcow2.h +6 -0
@@ -41,6 +41,12 @@#define QCOW_MAX_CRYPT_CLUSTERS 32#define QCOW_MAX_SNAPSHOTS 65536 +/* Field widths in qcow2 mean normal cluster offsets cannot reach +* 64PB; depending on cluster size, compressed clusters can have a +* smaller limit (64PB for up to 16k clusters, then ramps down to +* 512TB for 2M clusters). */ +#define QCOW_MAX_CLUSTER_OFFSET ((1ULL << 56) - 1) +/* 8 MB refcount table is enough for 2 PB images at 64k cluster size * (128 GB for 512 byte clusters, 2 EB for 2 MB clusters) */ #define QCOW_MAX_REFTABLE_SIZE 0x800000
block/qcow2-refcount.c +14 -7
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@#include "qemu/bswap.h" #include "qemu/cutils.h" -static int64_t alloc_clusters_noref (BlockDriverState *bs,uint64_t size); +static int64_t alloc_clusters_noref (BlockDriverState *bs,uint64_t size, +uint64_t max); static int QEMU_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT update_refcount(BlockDriverState *bs,int64_t offset,int64_t length,uint64_t addend,bool decrease,enum qcow2_discard_type type);
@@ -362,7 +363,8 @@ static int alloc_refcount_block(BlockDriverState *bs, }/* Allocate the refcount block itself and mark it as used */ -int64_t new_block =alloc_clusters_noref (bs, s->cluster_size); +int64_t new_block =alloc_clusters_noref (bs, s->cluster_size, +QCOW_MAX_CLUSTER_OFFSET );if (new_block <0 ) {return new_block; }
@@ -954,7 +956,8 @@ int qcow2_update_cluster_refcount(BlockDriverState *bs,/* return < 0 if error */ -static int64_t alloc_clusters_noref (BlockDriverState *bs,uint64_t size) +static int64_t alloc_clusters_noref (BlockDriverState *bs,uint64_t size, +uint64_t max) {BDRVQcow2State *s = bs->opaque;uint64_t i, nb_clusters, refcount;
@@ -979,9 +982,9 @@ retry: }/* Make sure that all offsets in the "allocated" range are representable -* in an int64_t */ +* in the requested max */ if (s->free_cluster_index >0 && - s->free_cluster_index -1 > (INT64_MAX >> s->cluster_bits)) + s->free_cluster_index -1 > (max >> s->cluster_bits)) {return -EFBIG ; }
@@ -1001,7 +1004,7 @@ int64_t qcow2_alloc_clusters(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t size)BLKDBG_EVENT (bs->file,BLKDBG_CLUSTER_ALLOC ); do { - offset = alloc_clusters_noref(bs, size); + offset = alloc_clusters_noref(bs, size, QCOW_MAX_CLUSTER_OFFSET); if (offset < 0) { return offset; }
@@ -1083,7 +1086,11 @@ int64_t qcow2_alloc_bytes(BlockDriverState *bs, int size) free_in_cluster = s->cluster_size -offset_into_cluster (s, offset); do { if (!offset || free_in_cluster < size) { - int64_t new_cluster = alloc_clusters_noref(bs, s->cluster_size); + int64_t new_cluster; + + new_cluster = alloc_clusters_noref(bs, s->cluster_size, + MIN(s->cluster_offset_mask, + QCOW_MAX_CLUSTER_OFFSET)); if (new_cluster < 0) { return new_cluster; }
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PATCH v6 5/6 iotests: Add new test 214 for max compressed cluster offset
In reply to Eric BlakeIf you have a capable file system (tmpfs is good, ext4 not so much; run ./check with TEST_DIR pointing to a good location so as not to skip the test), it's actually possible to create a qcow2 file that expands to a sparse 512T image with just over 38M of content. The test is not the world's fastest (qemu crawling through 256M bits of refcount table to find the next cluster to allocate takes several seconds, as does qemu-img check reporting millions of leaked clusters); but it DOES catch the problem that the previous patch just fixed where writing a compressed cluster to a full image ended up overwriting the wrong cluster.
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v6: new patch; took over 90 seconds to run on my setup, using tmpfs
--- tests/qemu-iotests/214 | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/214.out | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/group | 1 + 3 files changed, 152 insertions(+) create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/214 create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/214.out
tests/qemu-iotests/214 new file +97 -0
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@ +#!/bin/bash +# +# max limits on compression in huge qcow2 files +# +# Copyright (C) 2018 Red Hat, Inc. +# +# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +# (at your option) any later version. +# +# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. +# + +seq=`basename $0` +echo "QA output created by $seq" + +here=`pwd` +status=1 # failure is the default! + +_cleanup() +{ + _cleanup_test_img +} +trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15 + +# get standard environment, filters and checks +. ./common.rc +. ./common.filter +. ./common.pattern + +_supported_fmt qcow2 +_supported_proto file +_supported_os Linux + +echo "== Creating huge file ==" + +# Sanity check: We require a file system that permits the creation +# of a HUGE (but very sparse) file. tmpfs works, ext4 does not. +if ! truncate --size=513T "$TEST_IMG"; then + _notrun "file system on $TEST_DIR does not support large enough files" +fi +rm "$TEST_IMG" +IMGOPTS='cluster_size=2M,refcount_bits=1' _make_test_img 513T + +echo "== Populating refcounts ==" +# We want an image with 256M refcounts * 2M clusters = 512T referenced. +# Each 2M cluster holds 16M refcounts; the refcount table initially uses +# 1 refblock, so we need to add 15 more. The refcount table lives at 2M, +# first refblock at 4M, L2 at 6M, so our remaining additions start at 8M. +# Then, for each refblock, mark it as fully populated. +to_hex() { + printf %016x\\n $1 | sed 's/\(..\)/\\x\1/g' +} +truncate --size=38m "$TEST_IMG" +entry=$((0x200000)) +$QEMU_IO_PROG -f raw -c "w -P 0xff 4m 2m" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io +for i in {1..15}; do + offs=$((0x600000 + i*0x200000)) + poke_file "$TEST_IMG" $((i*8 + entry)) $(to_hex $offs) + $QEMU_IO_PROG -f raw -c "w -P 0xff $offs 2m" "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io +done + +echo "== Checking file before ==" +# FIXME: 'qemu-img check' doesn't diagnose refcounts beyond the end of +# the file as leaked clusters +_check_test_img 2>&1 | sed '/^Leaked cluster/d' +stat -c 'image size %s' "$TEST_IMG" + +echo "== Trying to write compressed cluster ==" +# Given our file size, the next available cluster at 512T lies beyond the +# maximum offset that a compressed 2M cluster can reside in +$QEMU_IO_PROG -c 'w -c 0 2m' "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io +# The attempt failed, but ended up allocating a new refblock +stat -c 'image size %s' "$TEST_IMG" + +echo "== Writing normal cluster ==" +# The failed write should not corrupt the image, so a normal write succeeds +$QEMU_IO_PROG -c 'w 0 2m' "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io + +echo "== Checking file after ==" +# qemu-img now sees the millions of leaked clusters, thanks to the allocations +# at 512T. Undo many of our faked references to speed up the check. +$QEMU_IO_PROG -f raw -c "w -z 5m 1m" -c "w -z 8m 30m" "$TEST_IMG" | + _filter_qemu_io +_check_test_img 2>&1 | sed '/^Leaked cluster/d' + +# success, all done +echo "*** done" +rm -f $seq.full +status=0
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tests/qemu-iotests/group +1 -0
@@ -212,3 +212,4 @@ 211 rw auto quick 212 rw auto quick 213 rw auto quick +214 rw auto
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 5/6] iotests: Add new test 214 for max compressed cluster offset
Quoted 11 lines · Eric Blake
If you have a capable file system (tmpfs is good, ext4 not so much; run ./check with
TEST_DIRpointing to a good location so as not to skip the test), it's actually possible to create a qcow2 file that expands to a sparse 512T image with just over 38M of content. The test is not the world's fastest (qemu crawling through 256M bits of refcount table to find the next cluster to allocate takes several seconds, as does qemu-img check reporting millions of leaked clusters); but it DOES catch the problem that the previous patch just fixed where writing a compressed cluster to a full image ended up overwriting the wrong cluster.
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Suggested-by Max Reitz <[email protected]>Signed-off-by Eric Blake <[email protected]>
Nice test :-)
Berto
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 5/6] iotests: Add new test 214 for max compressed cluster offset
Quoted 12 lines · Alberto Garcia
Quoted 11 lines · Eric Blake
If you have a capable file system (tmpfs is good, ext4 not so much; run ./check with
TEST_DIRpointing to a good location so as not to skip the test), it's actually possible to create a qcow2 file that expands to a sparse 512T image with just over 38M of content. The test is not the world's fastest (qemu crawling through 256M bits of refcount table to find the next cluster to allocate takes several seconds, as does qemu-img check reporting millions of leaked clusters); but it DOES catch the problem that the previous patch just fixed where writing a compressed cluster to a full image ended up overwriting the wrong cluster.
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Suggested-by Max Reitz <[email protected]>Signed-off-by Eric Blake <[email protected]>Nice test :-)
Reviewed-by Alberto Garcia <[email protected]>
214 is already in the tree in the meantime; this will need a rebase to pick the next available test number (220 might be claimed, so 222?)
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 5/6] iotests: Add new test 214 for max compressed cluster offset
Quoted 16 lines · Eric Blake
Quoted 15 lines · Alberto Garcia
Quoted 13 lines · Eric Blake
If you have a capable file system (tmpfs is good, ext4 not so much; run ./check with
TEST_DIRpointing to a good location so as not to skip the test), it's actually possible to create a qcow2 file that expands to a sparse 512T image with just over 38M of content. The test is not the world's fastest (qemu crawling through 256M bits of refcount table to find the next cluster to allocate takes several seconds, as does qemu-img check reporting millions of leaked clusters); but it DOES catch the problem that the previous patch just fixed where writing a compressed cluster to a full image ended up overwriting the wrong cluster.Suggested-by Max Reitz <[email protected]>Signed-off-by Eric Blake <[email protected]>
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Nice test :-)
Reviewed-by Alberto Garcia <[email protected]>214 is already in the tree in the meantime; this will need a rebase to pick the next available test number (220 might be claimed, so 222?)
You can also take 220 if you want, I suspect that it will take a bit longer to merge the blockdev-reopen patches. Whatever is easier for you.
Berto
PATCH v6 6/6 qcow2: Avoid memory over-allocation on compressed images
In reply to Eric BlakeWhen reading a compressed image, we were allocating s->cluster_data to 32*cluster_size + 512 (possibly over 64 megabytes, for an image with 2M clusters). Let's check out the history:
Back when qcow2 was first written, we used s->cluster_data for everything, including copy_sectors() and encryption, where we want to operate on more than one cluster at once. Obviously, at that point, the buffer had to be aligned for other users, even though compression itself doesn't require any alignment (the fact that the compressed data generally starts mid-sector means that aligning our buffer buys us nothing - either the protocol already supports byte-based access into whatever offset we want, or we are already using a bounce buffer to read a full sector, and copying into our destination no longer requires alignment).
But commit 1b9f1491 (v1.1!) changed things to allocate parallel buffers on demand rather than sharing a single buffer, for encryption and COW, leaving compression as the final client of s->cluster_data. That use was still preserved, because if a single compressed cluster is read more than once, we reuse the cache instead of decompressing it a second time (someday, we may come up with better caching to avoid wasting repeated decompressions while still being more parallel, but that is a task for another patch; the XXX comment in qcow2_co_preadv for QCOW2_CLUSTER_COMPRESSED is telling).
Much later, in commit de82815d (v2.2), we noticed that a 64M allocation is prone to failure, so we switched over to a graceful memory allocation error message. Elsewhere in the code, we do g_malloc(2 * cluster_size) without ever checking for failure, but even 4M starts to be large enough that trying to be nice is worth the effort, so we want to keep that aspect.
Then even later, in 3e4c7052 (2.11), we realized that allocating a large buffer up front for every qcow2 image is expensive, and switched to lazy allocation only for images that actually had compressed clusters. But in the process, we never even bothered to check whether what we were allocating still made sense in its new context!
So, it's time to cut back on the waste. A compressed cluster written by qemu will NEVER occupy more than an uncompressed cluster, but based on mid-sector alignment, we may still need to read 1 cluster + 1 sector in order to recover enough bytes for the decompression. Meanwhile, third-party producers of qcow2 may not be as smart, and gzip DOES document that because the compression stream adds metadata, and because of the pigeonhole principle, there are worst case scenarios where attempts to compress will actually inflate an image, by up to 0.015% (at most 1 sector larger for an unfortunate 2M compression), meaning we should realistically expect to sometimes need to read 1 cluster + 2 sectors.
However, the qcow2 spec permits an all-ones sector count, plus a full sector containing the initial offset, for a maximum read of 2 full clusters. Thanks to the way decompression works, even though such a value is too large for the actual compressed data (for all but 512-byte clusters), it really doesn't matter if we read too much (gzip ignores slop, once it has decoded a full cluster). So it's easier to just allocate cluster_data to be as large as we can ever possibly see; even if it still wastes up to 2M on any image created by qcow2, that's still an improvment of 60M less waste than pre-patch.
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v5: fix math error in commit message [Max]
v4: fix off-by-one in assertion and commit message [Berto]
v3: tighten allocation [Berto]
v2: actually check allocation failure (previous version meant to use g_malloc, but ended up posted with g_try_malloc without checking); add assertions outside of conditional, improve commit message to better match reality now that qcow2 spec bug has been fixed
--- block/qcow2-cluster.c | 27 ++++++++++++++++++--------- block/qcow2.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
block/qcow2-cluster.c +18 -9
@@ -1599,20 +1599,29 @@ int qcow2_decompress_cluster(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t cluster_offset) sector_offset = coffset &511 ; csize = nb_csectors *512 - sector_offset; -/* Allocate buffers on first decompress operation, most images are -* uncompressed and the memory overhead can be avoided. The buffers -* are freed in .bdrv_close(). +/* Allocate buffers on the first decompress operation; most +* images are uncompressed and the memory overhead can be +* avoided. The buffers are freed in .bdrv_close(). qemu +* never writes an inflated cluster, and gzip itself never +* inflates a problematic cluster by more than 0.015%, but the +* qcow2 format allows up to 1 byte short of 2 full clusters +* when including the sector containing offset. gzip ignores +* trailing slop, so just allocate that much up front rather +* than reject third-party images with overlarge csize. */ +assert (!!s->cluster_data == !!s->cluster_cache); +assert (csize <=2 * s->cluster_size);if (!s->cluster_data) { -/* one more sector for decompressed data alignment */ - s->cluster_data =qemu_try_blockalign (bs->file->bs, -QCOW_MAX_CRYPT_CLUSTERS * s->cluster_size +512 ); + s->cluster_data =g_try_malloc (2 * s->cluster_size);if (!s->cluster_data) {return -ENOMEM ; } - } -if (!s->cluster_cache) { - s->cluster_cache =g_malloc (s->cluster_size); + s->cluster_cache =g_try_malloc (s->cluster_size); +if (!s->cluster_cache) { +g_free (s->cluster_data); + s->cluster_data =NULL ; +return -ENOMEM ; + } }BLKDBG_EVENT (bs->file,BLKDBG_READ_COMPRESSED );
block/qcow2.c +1 -1
@@ -2151,7 +2151,7 @@ static void qcow2_close(BlockDriverState *bs)g_free (s->image_backing_format);g_free (s->cluster_cache); -qemu_vfree (s->cluster_data); +g_free (s->cluster_data);qcow2_refcount_close (bs);qcow2_free_snapshots (bs); }
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Quoted 39 lines · Eric Blake
Even though v5 was posted earlier today, it was worth a respin:
- 2/6: add R-b [Berto]
- 4/6, 6/6: improve commit messages [Max]
- 5/6: new patch, with an iotests proving that 4/6 is a bug fix [Max]The new test is rather slow (nearly 90 seconds for me using tmpfs) unless it skips entirely (such as testing on ext4); ideas for speeding it up are welcome (translation: maybe qemu should optimize the search for the next available cluster to allocate, and/or qemu-img check should be faster at reporting leaked clusters)
001/6:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Prefer byte-based calls into
bs->file' 002/6:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Document some maximum size constraints' 003/6:[----] [--] 'qcow2: ReduceREFT_OFFSET_MASK'
004/6:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Don't allow overflow during cluster allocation' 005/6:[down] 'iotests: Add new test 214 for max compressed cluster offset' 006/6:[----] [--] 'qcow2: Avoid memory over-allocation on compressed images'Eric Blake (6):
qcow2: Prefer byte-based calls intobs->file
qcow2: Document some maximum size constraints
qcow2: ReduceREFT_OFFSET_MASK
qcow2: Don't allow overflow during cluster allocation
iotests: Add new test 214 for max compressed cluster offset
qcow2: Avoid memory over-allocation on compressed imagesdocs/interop/qcow2.txt | 40 +++++++++++++++++-- block/qcow2.h | 8 +++- block/qcow2-cluster.c | 32 +++++++++------ block/qcow2-refcount.c | 27 ++++++++----- block/qcow2.c | 2 +- tests/qemu-iotests/214 | 97 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/214.out | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tests/qemu-iotests/group | 1 + 8 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)create mode 100755 tests/qemu-iotests/214
create mode 100644 tests/qemu-iotests/214.out
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org