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1046779e64eaa7ff0f3949e29e70364947fb48b6 block: Ignore loosening perm restrictions failures
We generally assume that loosening permission restrictions can never
fail. We have seen in the past that this assumption is wrong. This has
led to crashes because we generally pass &error_abort when loosening
permissions.
However, a failure in such a case should actually be handled in quite
the opposite way: It is very much not fatal, so qemu may report it, but
still consider the operation successful. The only realistic problem is
that qemu may then retain permissions and thus locks on images it
actually does not require. But again, that is not fatal.
To implement this behavior, we make all functions that change
permissions and that pass &error_abort to the initiating function
(bdrv_check_perm() or bdrv_child_check_perm()) evaluate the
@loosen_restrictions value introduced in the previous patch. If it is
true and an error did occur, we abort the permission update, discard the
error, and instead report success to the caller.
bdrv_child_try_set_perm() itself does not pass &error_abort, but it is
the only public function to change permissions. As such, callers may
pass &error_abort to it, expecting dropping permission restrictions to
never fail.
Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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