From: Ciro Iriarte <cyruspy@gmail.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH storage] btrfs: fix clone_image cloning live data instead of the requested snapshot
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:06:38 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260907.btrfsclonesnapfix@cyruspy.gmail.com> (raw)
clone_image() takes $snap but never passed it to filesystem_path(), so it always
resolved the live subvolume. Cloning from a snapshot therefore produced a clone of
the CURRENT state while the caller believed it had cloned the snapshot.
This is reachable from the GUI and the API, not a dormant path: volume_has_feature()
advertises 'clone' for the 'snap' key on raw volumes, and PVE::Storage::clone_image()
passes the snapshot straight through, so cloning a VM from one of its snapshots on a
btrfs storage silently gets current data. Nothing errors out and the clone is
perfectly readable, which is what makes it easy to miss -- the disk simply holds
different content than the snapshot it was named after.
Reproduced on a loop-backed btrfs by writing known content, snapshotting, then
overwriting the source: clone_image($snap) returned the post-overwrite md5. With
$snap passed through it returns the snapshot's md5.
Found while implementing copy-offload for this plugin, which needs the same
distinction and is where the question came up.
Generated-By: Claude (https://claude.ai)
Signed-off-by: Ciro Iriarte <ciro.iriarte+software@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
src/PVE/Storage/BTRFSPlugin.pm | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/PVE/Storage/BTRFSPlugin.pm b/src/PVE/Storage/BTRFSPlugin.pm
index fb47aa0..f58a1bb 100644
--- a/src/PVE/Storage/BTRFSPlugin.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/Storage/BTRFSPlugin.pm
@@ -298,7 +298,10 @@ sub clone_image {
$imagedir .= "/$vmid";
mkpath $imagedir;
- my $path = $class->filesystem_path($scfg, $volname);
+ # Clone the snapshot the caller asked for, not the live subvolume. Dropping $snap
+ # here silently produced a clone of the CURRENT state while the caller believed it
+ # had cloned the snapshot.
+ my $path = $class->filesystem_path($scfg, $volname, $snap);
my $newname = $class->find_free_diskname($storeid, $scfg, $vmid, $format, 1);
# For btrfs subvolumes we don't actually need the "link":
--
2.54.0
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