Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] conf: fix backing store parse off-by-one
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 22:06:08 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
Commit 546154e parses the type attribute from a <backingStore>
element, but forgot that the earlier commit 9673418 added a
placeholder element in the same 1.2.3 release; as a result,
the C code was mistakenly allowing "none" as a type.
Similarly, the same commit allows "none" as the <format>
sub-element type, even though that has been a placeholder
since the 0.10.2 release with commit f772b3d.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainDiskBackingStoreParse): Require
non-zero types.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake(a)redhat.com>
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Maybe worth addressing in a later patch: the RelaxNG grammar
currently requires a <format> and <backingStore> subelement
to any non-empty <backingStore>, and the C code matches this
requirement. However, we should probably make both of them
optional, to represent the case where the user is requesting
that we perform a probe to complete the backing chain details.
Right, however, this change will only make sense when we actually add
support for user-supplied backing chains so implementing this part
earlier is useless and perhaps even confusing.
ACK
Jirka