From 428eb7260718b69b1f3f421d03bce10b8785fc49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 12:34:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 19/20] qapi: Add '@allow-write-only-overlay' feature for
'blockdev-snapshot'
RH-Author: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-id: <20200313123439.10548-14-kwolf@redhat.com>
Patchwork-id: 94290
O-Subject: [RHEL-AV-8.2.0 qemu-kvm PATCH v2 13/13] qapi: Add '@allow-write-only-overlay' feature for 'blockdev-snapshot'
Bugzilla: 1790482 1805143
RH-Acked-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
From: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Anounce that 'blockdev-snapshot' command's permissions allow changing
of the backing file if the 'consistent_read' permission is not required.
This is useful for libvirt to allow late opening of the backing chain
during a blockdev-mirror.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200310113831.27293-8-kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit c6bdc312f30d5c7326aa2fdca3e0f98c15eb541a)
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Danilo C. L. de Paula <ddepaula@redhat.com>
---
qapi/block-core.json | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/qapi/block-core.json b/qapi/block-core.json
index a1e85b0..a64ad81 100644
--- a/qapi/block-core.json
+++ b/qapi/block-core.json
@@ -1541,6 +1541,12 @@
#
# For the arguments, see the documentation of BlockdevSnapshot.
#
+# Features:
+# @allow-write-only-overlay: If present, the check whether this operation is safe
+# was relaxed so that it can be used to change
+# backing file of a destination of a blockdev-mirror.
+# (since 5.0)
+#
# Since: 2.5
#
# Example:
@@ -1561,7 +1567,8 @@
#
##
{ 'command': 'blockdev-snapshot',
- 'data': 'BlockdevSnapshot' }
+ 'data': 'BlockdevSnapshot',
+ 'features': [ 'allow-write-only-overlay' ] }
##
# @change-backing-file:
--
1.8.3.1