block: Add support to warn on backing file change without format

For now, this is a mechanical addition; all callers pass false. But
the next patch will use it to improve 'qemu-img rebase -u' when
selecting a backing file with no format.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200706203954.341758-10-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 6925e57d7c..4acfebf0e8 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -1206,7 +1206,8 @@ static int bdrv_backing_update_filename(BdrvChild *c, BlockDriverState *base,
     }
 
     ret = bdrv_change_backing_file(parent, filename,
-                                   base->drv ? base->drv->format_name : "");
+                                   base->drv ? base->drv->format_name : "",
+                                   false);
     if (ret < 0) {
         error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Could not update backing file link");
     }
@@ -4680,8 +4681,8 @@ int bdrv_check(BlockDriverState *bs,
  *            image file header
  * -ENOTSUP - format driver doesn't support changing the backing file
  */
-int bdrv_change_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs,
-    const char *backing_file, const char *backing_fmt)
+int bdrv_change_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *backing_file,
+                             const char *backing_fmt, bool warn)
 {
     BlockDriver *drv = bs->drv;
     int ret;
@@ -4695,6 +4696,12 @@ int bdrv_change_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs,
         return -EINVAL;
     }
 
+    if (warn && backing_file && !backing_fmt) {
+        warn_report("Deprecated use of backing file without explicit "
+                    "backing format, use of this image requires "
+                    "potentially unsafe format probing");
+    }
+
     if (drv->bdrv_change_backing_file != NULL) {
         ret = drv->bdrv_change_backing_file(bs, backing_file, backing_fmt);
     } else {