block: Separate blk_is_writable() and blk_supports_write_perm()

Currently, blk_is_read_only() tells whether a given BlockBackend can
only be used in read-only mode because its root node is read-only. Some
callers actually try to answer a slightly different question: Is the
BlockBackend configured to be writable, by taking write permissions on
the root node?

This can differ, for example, for CD-ROM devices which don't take write
permissions, but may be backed by a writable image file. scsi-cd allows
write requests to the drive if blk_is_read_only() returns false.
However, the write request will immediately run into an assertion
failure because the write permission is missing.

This patch introduces separate functions for both questions.
blk_supports_write_perm() answers the question whether the block
node/image file can support writable devices, whereas blk_is_writable()
tells whether the BlockBackend is currently configured to be writable.

All calls of blk_is_read_only() are converted to one of the two new
functions.

Fixes: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1906693
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210118123448.307825-2-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/hw/block/nvme-ns.c b/hw/block/nvme-ns.c
index 31c80cd..2670787 100644
--- a/hw/block/nvme-ns.c
+++ b/hw/block/nvme-ns.c
@@ -48,13 +48,14 @@ static void nvme_ns_init(NvmeNamespace *ns)
 
 static int nvme_ns_init_blk(NvmeCtrl *n, NvmeNamespace *ns, Error **errp)
 {
+    bool read_only;
+
     if (!blkconf_blocksizes(&ns->blkconf, errp)) {
         return -1;
     }
 
-    if (!blkconf_apply_backend_options(&ns->blkconf,
-                                       blk_is_read_only(ns->blkconf.blk),
-                                       false, errp)) {
+    read_only = !blk_supports_write_perm(ns->blkconf.blk);
+    if (!blkconf_apply_backend_options(&ns->blkconf, read_only, false, errp)) {
         return -1;
     }