block: Handle null backing link

Instead of converting all "backing": null instances into "backing": "",
handle a null value directly in bdrv_open_inherit().

This enables explicitly null backing links for json:{} filenames.

Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
Message-Id: <20180224154033.29559-7-mreitz@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[eblake: rebase to qobject_to() parameter order and qapi headers split]
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

block.c

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include "qapi/error.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qdict.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qjson.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp/qnull.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qstring.h"
 #include "qapi/qobject-output-visitor.h"
 #include "qapi/qapi-visit-block-core.h"
@@ -2645,7 +2646,9 @@ static BlockDriverState *bdrv_open_inherit(const char *filename,
 
     /* See cautionary note on accessing @options above */
     backing = qdict_get_try_str(options, "backing");
-    if (backing && *backing == '\0') {
+    if (qobject_to(QNull, qdict_get(options, "backing")) != NULL ||
+        (backing && *backing == '\0'))
+    {
         flags |= BDRV_O_NO_BACKING;
         qdict_del(options, "backing");
     }

blockdev.c

@@ -4045,7 +4045,6 @@ void qmp_blockdev_add(BlockdevOptions *options, Error **errp)
     QObject *obj;
     Visitor *v = qobject_output_visitor_new(&obj);
     QDict *qdict;
-    const QDictEntry *ent;
     Error *local_err = NULL;
 
     visit_type_BlockdevOptions(v, NULL, &options, &local_err);
@@ -4059,19 +4058,6 @@ void qmp_blockdev_add(BlockdevOptions *options, Error **errp)
 
     qdict_flatten(qdict);
 
-    /*
-     * Rewrite "backing": null to "backing": ""
-     * TODO Rewrite "" to null instead, and perhaps not even here
-     */
-    for (ent = qdict_first(qdict); ent; ent = qdict_next(qdict, ent)) {
-        char *dot = strrchr(ent->key, '.');
-
-        if (!strcmp(dot ? dot + 1 : ent->key, "backing")
-            && qobject_type(ent->value) == QTYPE_QNULL) {
-            qdict_put(qdict, ent->key, qstring_new());
-        }
-    }
-
     if (!qdict_get_try_str(qdict, "node-name")) {
         error_setg(errp, "'node-name' must be specified for the root node");
         goto fail;

tests/qemu-iotests/089

@@ -82,6 +82,26 @@ $QEMU_IO_PROG --cache $CACHEMODE \
 $QEMU_IO -c 'read -P 42 0 512' "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
 
 
+echo
+echo "=== Testing correct handling of 'backing':null ==="
+echo
+
+_make_test_img -b "$TEST_IMG.base" $IMG_SIZE
+
+# This should read 42
+$QEMU_IO -c 'read -P 42 0 512' "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# This should read 0
+$QEMU_IO -c 'read -P 0 0 512' "json:{\
+    'driver': '$IMGFMT',
+    'file': {
+        'driver': 'file',
+        'filename': '$TEST_IMG'
+    },
+    'backing': null
+}" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+
 # Taken from test 071
 echo
 echo "=== Testing blkdebug ==="

tests/qemu-iotests/089.out

@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ Pattern verification failed at offset 0, 512 bytes
 read 512/512 bytes at offset 0
 512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
 
+=== Testing correct handling of 'backing':null ===
+
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864 backing_file=TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base
+read 512/512 bytes at offset 0
+512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+read 512/512 bytes at offset 0
+512 bytes, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+
 === Testing blkdebug ===
 
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=67108864