The problem was triggered by qemu-iotests case 055. It failed when it was comparing the compressed vmdk image with original test.img.
The cause is that buf_len in vmdk_write_extent wasn't converted to little-endian before it was stored to disk. But later vmdk_read_extent read it and converted it from little-endian to cpu endian. If the cpu is big-endian like s390, the problem will happen and the data length read by vmdk_read_extent will become invalid! The fix is to add the conversion in vmdk_write_extent, meanwhile, repair the endianness problem of lba field which shall also be converted to little-endian before storing to disk. Cc: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org Signed-off-by: QingFeng Hao <ha...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jing Liu <liuj...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> --- block/vmdk.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/vmdk.c b/block/vmdk.c index a11c27a..26e5f95 100644 --- a/block/vmdk.c +++ b/block/vmdk.c @@ -1354,8 +1354,8 @@ static int vmdk_write_extent(VmdkExtent *extent, int64_t cluster_offset, goto out; } - data->lba = offset >> BDRV_SECTOR_BITS; - data->size = buf_len; + data->lba = cpu_to_le64(offset >> BDRV_SECTOR_BITS); + data->size = cpu_to_le32(buf_len); n_bytes = buf_len + sizeof(VmdkGrainMarker); iov = (struct iovec) { -- 2.8.4