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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] QEMU "drive_init()" Disk Format Security Bypass

To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] QEMU "drive_init()" Disk Format Security Bypass
From: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:55:11 +0100
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Markus Armbruster writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] QEMU "drive_init()" Disk 
Format Security Bypass"):
> We could plug the hole by forcing raw in do_change_block().
> One-liner, minor loss of functionality.  What do you think?

Certainly I think that would be an improvement over the current
situation.  Media change of raw images is more the kind of thing
people might want to do than media change between different cows.

If no-one else objects that this kills their use case I think we
should do it.

Ian.

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