qemu: don't munge user input during block commit
While investigating https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=
1061827
I noticed that we pass user input unscathed for block-pull, but
always pass a canonical absolute name through for block-commit.
[Note that we probably _ought_ to validate that the user's request
for block-pull actually matches the backing chain, the way we already
do for block-commit - but that's a separate issue. Further note that
the ability to pass user input through unscathed allows backdoors
such as specifying a backing image that is a network URI such as
a gluster disk, instead of forcing things to the local file system;
which is an area still under active investigation on whether libvirt
needs to behave differently for network disks.]
Since qemu may write the name that the user passed in as the backing
file, a user may have a reason to want a relative file name passed
through to qemu, and always munging things to absolute prevents that.
Put another way, if you have the backing chain:
[A] <- [B(back=./A)] <- [C(back=./B)]
and commit B into A (virsh blockcommit $dom vda --base A --top B),
the metadata of C will have to be re-written. But should it be
rewritten as [C(back=./A)] or as [C(back=/path/to/A)]? Still up in
the air is whether qemu's decision should be based on whether B
and/or C had relative paths, or on whether the --base and/or
--top arguments to the command were relative paths; but if we always
pass a canonical name, we've prevented the spelling of the command
arguments from being part of the hueristics that qemu uses.
I also audited the code, and verified that we never call
qemuMonitorBlockCommit() with a NULL base, either before or after
the change to qemu_driver.c.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemuDomainBlockCommit): Preserve user's
spelling, since absolute vs. relative matters to qemu.
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h (qemuMonitorBlockCommit): Base is never
null.
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c (qemuMonitorBlockCommit): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.h (qemuMonitorJSONBlockCommit):
Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor_json.c (qemuMonitorJSONBlockCommit):
Likewise.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>