On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 09:57:08PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> This test depends on TarFile.addfile() to add tar member header without
> writing the member data, which we write ourself using qemu-nbd. Python
> 3.13 changed the function in a backward incompatible way[1] to require a
> file object for tarinfo with non-zero size, breaking the test:
>
> -[{"name": "vm.ovf", "offset": 512, "size": 6}, {"name": "disk",
> "offset": 1536, "size": 393216}]
> +Traceback (most recent call last):
> + File "/home/stefanha/qemu/tests/qemu-iotests/302", line 118, in
> <module>
> + tar.addfile(disk)
> + ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
> + File "/usr/lib64/python3.13/tarfile.py", line 2262, in addfile
> + raise ValueError("fileobj not provided for non zero-size regular
> file")
> +ValueError: fileobj not provided for non zero-size regular file
>
> The new behavior makes sense for most users, but breaks our unusual
> usage. Fix the test to add the member header directly using public but
> undocumented attributes. This is more fragile but the test works again.
>
> This also fixes a bug in the previous code - when calling addfile()
> without a fileobject, tar.offset points to the start of the member data
> instead of the end.
>
> [1] https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/117988
>
> Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <[email protected]>
> ---
> tests/qemu-iotests/302 | 19 ++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>
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