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-rw-r--r--block/vmdk.c13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/block/vmdk.c b/block/vmdk.c
index 0f2e453bf5..931eb2759c 100644
--- a/block/vmdk.c
+++ b/block/vmdk.c
@@ -425,15 +425,16 @@ static int vmdk_add_extent(BlockDriverState *bs,
error_setg(errp, "Invalid granularity, image may be corrupt");
return -EFBIG;
}
- if (l1_size > 512 * 1024 * 1024) {
+ if (l1_size > 32 * 1024 * 1024) {
/*
* Although with big capacity and small l1_entry_sectors, we can get a
* big l1_size, we don't want unbounded value to allocate the table.
- * Limit it to 512M, which is:
- * 16PB - for default "Hosted Sparse Extent" (VMDK4)
- * cluster size: 64KB, L2 table size: 512 entries
- * 1PB - for default "ESXi Host Sparse Extent" (VMDK3/vmfsSparse)
- * cluster size: 512B, L2 table size: 4096 entries
+ * Limit it to 32M, which is enough to store:
+ * 8TB - for both VMDK3 & VMDK4 with
+ * minimal cluster size: 512B
+ * minimal L2 table size: 512 entries
+ * 8 TB is still more than the maximal value supported for
+ * VMDK3 & VMDK4 which is 2TB.
*/
error_setg(errp, "L1 size too big");
return -EFBIG;