commit 08b24cfe3765f4b739700778814048e7d9a045fe
author Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com> Tue Nov 03 12:32:35 2015 +0200
committer Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> Wed Nov 11 16:25:48 2015 +0100
tree ece881c5e0c550972730db1419cbc0c846335d6b
parent a0d64a61db602696f4f1895a890c65eda5b3b618

block: Disallow snapshots if the overlay doesn't support backing files

This addresses scenarios like this one:

  { 'execute': 'blockdev-add', 'arguments':
    { 'options': { 'driver': 'qcow2',
                   'node-name': 'new0',
                   'file': { 'driver': 'file',
                             'filename': 'new.qcow2',
                             'node-name': 'file0' } } } }

  { 'execute': 'blockdev-snapshot', 'arguments':
    { 'node': 'virtio0',
      'overlay': 'file0' } }

Signed-off-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

blockdev.c

diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
index 3598b01..3197791 100644
--- a/blockdev.c
+++ b/blockdev.c
@@ -1678,6 +1678,11 @@
 
     if (state->new_bs->backing != NULL) {
         error_setg(errp, "The snapshot already has a backing image");
+        return;
+    }
+
+    if (!state->new_bs->drv->supports_backing) {
+        error_setg(errp, "The snapshot does not support backing images");
     }
 }