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[2/4] block: Read only one sector for format probing

Message ID 1414671976-5353-3-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com
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Kevin Wolf Oct. 30, 2014, 12:26 p.m. UTC
The only image format driver that even potentially accesses anything
after 512 bytes in its bdrv_probe() implementation is VMDK, which reads
a plain-text descriptor file. In practice, the field it's looking for
seems to come first and will be well within the first 512 bytes, too.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
 block.c                   | 2 +-
 include/block/block_int.h | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Stefan Hajnoczi Nov. 4, 2014, 3:32 p.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 01:26:14PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> The only image format driver that even potentially accesses anything
> after 512 bytes in its bdrv_probe() implementation is VMDK, which reads
> a plain-text descriptor file. In practice, the field it's looking for
> seems to come first and will be well within the first 512 bytes, too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block.c                   | 2 +-
>  include/block/block_int.h | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

I tried to find a logical reason for the historical 1024 and 2048 byte
sizes but it's not clear.  512 should be fine.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 8da6e61..8006685 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@  static int find_image_format(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *filename,
                              BlockDriver **pdrv, Error **errp)
 {
     BlockDriver *drv;
-    uint8_t buf[2048];
+    uint8_t buf[BLOCK_PROBE_BUF_SIZE];
     int ret = 0;
 
     /* Return the raw BlockDriver * to scsi-generic devices or empty drives */
diff --git a/include/block/block_int.h b/include/block/block_int.h
index 8898c6c..697cd5d 100644
--- a/include/block/block_int.h
+++ b/include/block/block_int.h
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ 
 #define BLOCK_OPT_REDUNDANCY        "redundancy"
 #define BLOCK_OPT_NOCOW             "nocow"
 
+#define BLOCK_PROBE_BUF_SIZE        512
+
 typedef struct BdrvTrackedRequest {
     BlockDriverState *bs;
     int64_t offset;