qcow2: Update whole header at once

In order to switch the backing file, qcow2 issues multiple write
requests that only changed a part of the image header. Any failure after
the first one would leave the header in an corrupted state. With this
patch, the whole header is written at once, so we can't fail in the
middle.

At the same time, this gives us a reusable functions that updates all
fields of the qcow2 header and not only the backing file.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/block/qcow2.h b/block/qcow2.h
index 99e45361f5..aae5f894e1 100644
--- a/block/qcow2.h
+++ b/block/qcow2.h
@@ -178,6 +178,7 @@ static inline int64_t align_offset(int64_t offset, int n)
 /* qcow2.c functions */
 int qcow2_backing_read1(BlockDriverState *bs, QEMUIOVector *qiov,
                   int64_t sector_num, int nb_sectors);
+int qcow2_update_header(BlockDriverState *bs);
 
 /* qcow2-refcount.c functions */
 int qcow2_refcount_init(BlockDriverState *bs);