Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH v3 1/4] mltools: Rename Yajl module as JSON_parser and move to common/mltools.
On 08/17/2018 10:48 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 10:30:35AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/17/2018 10:16 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> Commit bd1c5c9f4dcf38458099db8a0bf4659a07ef055d changed all the code
>> to use Jansson instead of yajl. However it didn't change the OCaml
>> API name (which was still Yajl).
>>
>
> Are you aware that Jansson can't parse all JSON generated by qemu,
> and that the developers of Jansson did not seem sympathetic to
> patches that would make it possible? Libvirt recently reverted
> their use of Jansson because of its inability to deal with unsigned
> 64-bit numbers (and sadly, RFC7159 does not define bounds for what
> forms valid JSON numbers, but merely leaves it up to implementations
> to decide for themselves).
Yes, painfully aware. Not sure what to do about it however, since the
alternative (ie. switching back to yajl) as libvirt did is not going
to be pleasant.
Currently we're OK as long as disk sizes don't exceed 8 petabytes, if
my quick calculation is correct.
The problem comes anywhere that qemu outputs an unsigned 64-bit number
as unsigned AND where that value is larger than INT64_MAX (jansson uses
strtoll, rather than strtoull). But since disk sizes cannot exceed
off_t, which is a signed 64-bit number, it does not matter whether qemu
outputs those as signed or unsigned - they will still be parseable as a
signed number. Thus, you are correct that disk sizes in qemu output
won't trigger the Jansson limitation.
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