Libguestfs - Jun 2022 - luks filter breaks zeroing

(More of a note to self to investigate)

$ qemu-img create -f luks --object secret,data=LETMEPASS,id=sec0 -o
key-secret=sec0 encrypted.img 100M
Formatting 'encrypted.img', fmt=luks size=104857600 key-secret=sec0
$ rm -f data.img
$ truncate -s 100M data.img
$ nbdkit file encrypted.img --filter=luks passphrase=LETMEPASS --run
'nbdcopy data.img $nbd'
nbdkit: backend.c:718: backend_zero: Assertion `c->can_zero >
NBDKIT_ZERO_NONE' failed.
write at offset 0 failed: Transport endpoint is not connected
nbdkit: nbdkit command was killed by signal 6



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On Fri, Jun 10, 2022 at 09:40:48AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones
wrote:
> 
> (More of a note to self to investigate)
> 
> $ qemu-img create -f luks --object secret,data=LETMEPASS,id=sec0 -o
key-secret=sec0 encrypted.img 100M
> Formatting 'encrypted.img', fmt=luks size=104857600 key-secret=sec0
> $ rm -f data.img
> $ truncate -s 100M data.img
> $ nbdkit file encrypted.img --filter=luks passphrase=LETMEPASS --run
'nbdcopy data.img $nbd'
> nbdkit: backend.c:718: backend_zero: Assertion `c->can_zero >
NBDKIT_ZERO_NONE' failed.
> write at offset 0 failed: Transport endpoint is not connected
> nbdkit: nbdkit command was killed by signal 6
It's a bug in server/backend.c:backend_zero() for not checking and
handling ZERO_EMULATE by calling into pwrite instead.  I'll fix it
shortly.  (I seem to recall that I had ZERO_EMULATE working when I
first introduced it; I'll have to check git history and see if a
refactoring accidentally lost it...)

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