[pve-devel] [PATCH qemu-server 1/1] block resize: avoid passing zero size to QMP command

[Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>]

Commit 7246e8f9 ("Set zero $size and continue if volume_resize()
returns false") mentions that this is needed for "some storages with
backing block devices to do online resize" and since this patch came
together [0] with pve-storage commit a4aee43 ("Fix RBD resize with
krbd option enabled."), it's safe to assume that RBD with krbd is
meant. But it should be the same situation for any external plugin
relying on the same behavior.

Other storages backed by block devices like LVM(-thin) and ZFS return
1 and the new size respectively, and the code is older than the above
mentioned commits. So really, the RBD plugin just should have returned
a positive value to be in-line with those and there should be no need
to pass 0 to the block_resize QMP command either.

Actually, it's a hack, because the block_resize QMP command does not
actually do special handling for the value 0. It's just that in the
case of a block device, QEMU won't try to resize it (and not fail for
shrinkage). But the size in the raw driver's BlockDriverState is
temporarily set to 0 (which is not nice), until the sector count is
refreshed, where raw_co_getlength is called, which queries the new
size and sets the size in the raw driver's BlockDriverState again as a
side effect. It's not known to cause any issues, but bdrv_getlength is
a coroutine wrapper starting from QEMU 8.0.0, and it's just better to
avoid setting a completely wrong value even temporarily. Just pass the
actually requested size like is done for LVM(thin) and ZFS.

[0]: https://lists.proxmox.com/pipermail/pve-devel/2017-January/025060.html

Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
---
 PVE/QemuServer.pm | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
index c1d0fd2d..86d88914 100644
--- a/PVE/QemuServer.pm
+++ b/PVE/QemuServer.pm
@@ -4766,7 +4766,7 @@ sub qemu_block_resize {
 
     my $running = check_running($vmid);
 
-    $size = 0 if !PVE::Storage::volume_resize($storecfg, $volid, $size, $running);
+    PVE::Storage::volume_resize($storecfg, $volid, $size, $running);
 
     return if !$running;
 
-- 
2.30.2