From: "Elias Huhsovitz" <e.huhsovitz@proxmox.com>
To: "Fiona Ebner" <f.ebner@proxmox.com>, <pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH qemu-server 3/4] clone disk: abort early when failing to query size of source disk
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:53:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DMC39QUL3Z5H.3A6QH8IVSTOWL@proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261022093901.52732-4-f.ebner@proxmox.com>
Seems sensible!
Reviewed-by: Elias Huhsovitz <e.huhsovitz@proxmox.com>
On Thu Oct 22, 2026 at 11:38 AM CEST, Fiona Ebner wrote:
> Not all plugin implementations of the volume_size_info() method fail
> if there is an error. In particular, the native file-based plugins
> use file_size_info() which returns undef upon failure.
>
> While clone is likely to fail later (e.g. vdisk_alloc() is called with
> an undef size), avoid any surprises and fail early with a clean error.
>
> Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
> ---
> src/PVE/QemuServer.pm | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm
> index 8f062466..4b7351b3 100644
> --- a/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm
> +++ b/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm
> @@ -7895,6 +7895,7 @@ sub clone_disk {
> );
>
> $size = PVE::Storage::volume_size_info($storecfg, $drive->{file}, 10);
> + die "unable to query size of volume '$drive->{file}'\n" if !$size;
> }
> $source->{size} = $size;
> $newvolid = PVE::Storage::vdisk_alloc(
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-23 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-22 9:38 [PATCH-SERIES qemu-server 0/4] fix #8209: clone disk: do not ignore failure to query size of target Fiona Ebner
2026-10-22 9:38 ` [PATCH qemu-server 1/4] block job: monitor: document that job-complete is not used if source differs from target Fiona Ebner
2026-10-23 8:44 ` Elias Huhsovitz
2026-10-22 9:38 ` [PATCH qemu-server 2/4] fix #8209: clone disk: do not ignore failure to query size of target Fiona Ebner
2026-10-22 13:25 ` Elias Huhsovitz
2026-10-22 9:38 ` [PATCH qemu-server 3/4] clone disk: abort early when failing to query size of source disk Fiona Ebner
2026-10-23 8:53 ` Elias Huhsovitz [this message]
2026-10-22 9:38 ` [PATCH qemu-server 4/4] clone disk: bump timeout for querying target volume size to 1 minute Fiona Ebner
2026-10-23 9:31 ` Elias Huhsovitz
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