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    Extract the backing store format as well as name, if available · a93402d4
    Daniel P. Berrange 提交于
    When QEMU opens a backing store for a QCow2 file, it will
    normally auto-probe for the format of the backing store,
    rather than assuming it has the same format as the referencing
    file. There is a QCow2 extension that allows an explicit format
    for the backing store to be embedded in the referencing file.
    This closes the auto-probing security hole in QEMU.
    
    This backing store format can be useful for libvirt users
    of virStorageFileGetMetadata, so extract this data and report
    it.
    
    QEMU does not require disk image backing store files to be in
    the same format the file linkee. It will auto-probe the disk
    format for the backing store when opening it. If the backing
    store was intended to be a raw file this could be a security
    hole, because a guest may have written data into its disk that
    then makes the backing store look like a qcow2 file. If it can
    trick QEMU into thinking the raw file is a qcow2 file, it can
    access arbitrary files on the host by adding further backing
    store links.
    
    To address this, callers of virStorageFileGetMeta need to be
    told of the backing store format. If no format is declared,
    they can make a decision whether to allow format probing or
    not.
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