The qcow driver refuses to open images which are less than 2 bytes in size, but will happily create such images. Add a check in the create path to avoid this discrepancy.
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <be...@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> --- block/qcow.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/qcow.c b/block/qcow.c index 9d6ac83..d6ce46c 100644 --- a/block/qcow.c +++ b/block/qcow.c @@ -811,6 +811,12 @@ static int qcow_create(const char *filename, QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp) /* Read out options */ total_size = ROUND_UP(qemu_opt_get_size_del(opts, BLOCK_OPT_SIZE, 0), BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE); + if (total_size == 0) { + error_setg(errp, "Image size is too small, cannot be zero length"); + ret = -EINVAL; + goto cleanup; + } + backing_file = qemu_opt_get_del(opts, BLOCK_OPT_BACKING_FILE); if (qemu_opt_get_bool_del(opts, BLOCK_OPT_ENCRYPT, false)) { flags |= BLOCK_FLAG_ENCRYPT; -- 2.9.3