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-rw-r--r--block.c58
1 files changed, 48 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index 5d17aa1cc3..5ff6cbd796 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -2528,19 +2528,57 @@ static void bdrv_default_perms_for_storage(BlockDriverState *bs, BdrvChild *c,
bdrv_filter_default_perms(bs, c, child_class, role, reopen_queue,
perm, shared, &perm, &shared);
- /* Format drivers may touch metadata even if the guest doesn't write */
- if (bdrv_is_writable_after_reopen(bs, reopen_queue)) {
- perm |= BLK_PERM_WRITE | BLK_PERM_RESIZE;
+ if (role & BDRV_CHILD_METADATA) {
+ /* Format drivers may touch metadata even if the guest doesn't write */
+ if (bdrv_is_writable_after_reopen(bs, reopen_queue)) {
+ perm |= BLK_PERM_WRITE | BLK_PERM_RESIZE;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * bs->file always needs to be consistent because of the
+ * metadata. We can never allow other users to resize or write
+ * to it.
+ */
+ if (!(flags & BDRV_O_NO_IO)) {
+ perm |= BLK_PERM_CONSISTENT_READ;
+ }
+ shared &= ~(BLK_PERM_WRITE | BLK_PERM_RESIZE);
}
- /*
- * bs->file always needs to be consistent because of the metadata. We
- * can never allow other users to resize or write to it.
- */
- if (!(flags & BDRV_O_NO_IO)) {
- perm |= BLK_PERM_CONSISTENT_READ;
+ if (role & BDRV_CHILD_DATA) {
+ /*
+ * Technically, everything in this block is a subset of the
+ * BDRV_CHILD_METADATA path taken above, and so this could
+ * be an "else if" branch. However, that is not obvious, and
+ * this function is not performance critical, therefore we let
+ * this be an independent "if".
+ */
+
+ /*
+ * We cannot allow other users to resize the file because the
+ * format driver might have some assumptions about the size
+ * (e.g. because it is stored in metadata, or because the file
+ * is split into fixed-size data files).
+ */
+ shared &= ~BLK_PERM_RESIZE;
+
+ /*
+ * WRITE_UNCHANGED often cannot be performed as such on the
+ * data file. For example, the qcow2 driver may still need to
+ * write copied clusters on copy-on-read.
+ */
+ if (perm & BLK_PERM_WRITE_UNCHANGED) {
+ perm |= BLK_PERM_WRITE;
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * If the data file is written to, the format driver may
+ * expect to be able to resize it by writing beyond the EOF.
+ */
+ if (perm & BLK_PERM_WRITE) {
+ perm |= BLK_PERM_RESIZE;
+ }
}
- shared &= ~(BLK_PERM_WRITE | BLK_PERM_RESIZE);
if (bs->open_flags & BDRV_O_INACTIVE) {
shared |= BLK_PERM_WRITE | BLK_PERM_RESIZE;