On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 04:57:17PM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote:
 When creating the qemu-img command, use the guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg
&
 guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg_format APIs to add the proper filename directly,
 without creating a string for it.
 
 This should cause no functional change.
 ---
  lib/create.c | 25 +++++++++++--------------
  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
 
 diff --git a/lib/create.c b/lib/create.c
 index 60e467fb6..fcc5855e0 100644
 --- a/lib/create.c
 +++ b/lib/create.c
 @@ -250,11 +250,10 @@ is_power_of_2 (unsigned v)
                                 VALID_FLAG_ALPHA|VALID_FLAG_DIGIT, "")
  
  static int
 -disk_create_qcow2 (guestfs_h *g, const char *orig_filename, int64_t size,
 +disk_create_qcow2 (guestfs_h *g, const char *filename, int64_t size,
                     const char *backingfile,
                     const struct guestfs_disk_create_argv *optargs)
  {
 -  CLEANUP_FREE char *filename = NULL;
    const char *backingformat = NULL;
    const char *preallocation = NULL;
    const char *compat = NULL;
 @@ -263,16 +262,6 @@ disk_create_qcow2 (guestfs_h *g, const char *orig_filename, int64_t
size,
    CLEANUP_CMD_CLOSE struct command *cmd = guestfs_int_new_command (g);
    int r;
  
 -  /* If the filename is something like "file:foo" then qemu-img will
 -   * try to interpret that as "foo" in the file:/// protocol.  To
 -   * avoid that, if the path is relative prefix it with "./" since
 -   * qemu-img won't try to interpret such a path.
 -   */
 -  if (orig_filename[0] != '/')
 -    filename = safe_asprintf (g, "./%s", orig_filename);
 -  else
 -    filename = safe_strdup (g, orig_filename);
 -
    if (optargs->bitmask & GUESTFS_DISK_CREATE_BACKINGFORMAT_BITMASK) {
      backingformat = optargs->backingformat;
      if (!VALID_FORMAT (backingformat)) {
 @@ -341,13 +330,21 @@ disk_create_qcow2 (guestfs_h *g, const char *orig_filename, int64_t
size,
    }
  
    /* Complete the command line. */
 -  guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg (cmd, filename);
 +  /* If the filename is something like "file:foo" then qemu-img will
 +   * try to interpret that as "foo" in the file:/// protocol.  To
 +   * avoid that, if the path is relative prefix it with "./" since
 +   * qemu-img won't try to interpret such a path.
 +   */
 +  if (filename[0] == '/')
 +    guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg (cmd, filename);
 +  else
 +    guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg_format (cmd, "./%s", filename);
    if (size >= 0)
      guestfs_int_cmd_add_arg_format (cmd, "%" PRIi64, size);
  
    r = guestfs_int_cmd_run (cmd);
    if (!WIFEXITED (r) || WEXITSTATUS (r) != 0) {
 -    guestfs_int_external_command_failed (g, r, "qemu-img", orig_filename);
 +    guestfs_int_external_command_failed (g, r, "qemu-img", filename);
      return -1;
    } 
Seems sensible, ACK.
Rich.
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