block: Inactivate external snapshot overlays when necessary

Putting an active block node on top of an inactive one is strictly
speaking an invalid configuration and the next patch will turn it into a
hard error.

However, taking a snapshot while disk images are inactive after
completing migration has an important use case: After migrating to a
file, taking an external snapshot is what is needed to take a full VM
snapshot.

In order for this to keep working after the later patches, change
creating a snapshot such that it automatically inactivates an overlay
that is added on top of an already inactive node.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Fabiano Rosas <farosas@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20250204211407.381505-4-kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
index 2180244..eb2517f 100644
--- a/blockdev.c
+++ b/blockdev.c
@@ -1497,6 +1497,22 @@ static void external_snapshot_action(TransactionAction *action,
         return;
     }
 
+    /*
+     * Older QEMU versions have allowed adding an active parent node to an
+     * inactive child node. This is unsafe in the general case, but there is an
+     * important use case, which is taking a VM snapshot with migration to file
+     * and then adding an external snapshot while the VM is still stopped and
+     * images are inactive. Requiring the user to explicitly create the overlay
+     * as inactive would break compatibility, so just do it automatically here
+     * to keep this working.
+     */
+    if (bdrv_is_inactive(state->old_bs) && !bdrv_is_inactive(state->new_bs)) {
+        ret = bdrv_inactivate(state->new_bs, errp);
+        if (ret < 0) {
+            return;
+        }
+    }
+
     ret = bdrv_append(state->new_bs, state->old_bs, errp);
     if (ret < 0) {
         return;