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TL;DR

Freed qcow2 clusters now return their space to the host file.

Summary

• imago is switched to a 0.2.2-based fork (ltstriker/imago, pinned by rev). It punches holes for data clusters whose refcount drops to 0, and flushes refcounts before writing new L1/L2 references. Without that flush, a VM exiting before a flush left an L2 table marked free, and later data overwrote it.
• DISCARD / WRITE_ZEROES reject guest ranges past the disk end, or ranges whose byte offset would wrap to the start. A discard now deletes host data.

Verification

• cargo test -p krun-devices --features blk --lib virtio::block: 3 range tests pass. 2 fail with the check removed.
• imago cargo test: 6 discard tests pass. 4 fail without the fix.

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Walkthrough

The imago dependency now uses a specified Git revision. The block worker validates DISCARD and WRITE_ZEROES sector ranges against disk bounds, converts valid ranges to byte ranges, and returns InvalidRange for overflow or out-of-disk ranges. Tests cover valid conversion and both invalid-range cases.

Suggested reviewers: slp

Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a0f61

Range validation is covered, but read-only request handling and long-term dependency availability remain bounded risks for merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to a0f61

The new range checks strengthen protection against destructive requests outside the guest disk. No introduced security defect was established, but the replacement storage library’s read-only enforcement and recovery behavior remain unverified.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The evidenced attack surface is guest block-request submission into the configured disk’s host-side storage backend. Source establishes access to that image, not cross-tenant or cross-service reach. Effects on shared clusters or backing images cannot be bounded without the fork implementation.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• inferred — The new gate blocks guest ranges that exceed advertised capacity or overflow sector addition before they cross into destructive backend operations. Although byte multiplication is unchecked, the capacity derived from a u64 byte size bounds accepted offsets against multiplication overflow.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The code explicitly ties safe hole punching to one-at-a-time processing with no I/O in flight on the discarded range. Adding queues or workers would require re-evaluating that containment invariant.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Validate the pinned backend’s read-only rejection and cluster-ownership recovery across interrupted, repeated, and partially failed discard operations before treating the worker’s completion status as evidence of safe persistent state.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: punching holes for freed qcow2 clusters in the block layer.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the dependency change, range validation, hole punching behavior, and test results.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 85.71% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 2 files. (1 skipped: 1 u…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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src/devices/src/virtio/block/worker.rs-284-284 (1)

284-284: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject DISCARD and WRITE_ZEROES when the disk is read-only.

With this change, the device does not advertise VIRTIO_BLK_F_DISCARD or VIRTIO_BLK_F_WRITE_ZEROES for read-only disks. The worker still runs these requests when a guest sends them. The worker also accepts unknown flag bits. The imago image is opened without write access, so the backend probably returns an I/O error. Return VIRTIO_BLK_S_UNSUPP early for these requests when the disk is read-only. That keeps the reported status consistent with the advertised features.

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Review comment at @src/devices/src/virtio/block/worker.rs at line 284:
In the block worker handling `read_discard_range` and WRITE_ZEROES requests,
return `VIRTIO_BLK_S_UNSUPP` before backend access when the disk is read-only;
also reject requests containing unknown flag bits with the unsupported status.

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src/devices/Cargo.toml (1)

44-44: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Track the personal fork dependency before release.

The rev pin gives reproducible builds. The dependency still points to a personal fork that is not published on crates.io. If the fork is deleted or rewritten, the build fails. Track the upstream imago PR and switch back to a crates.io release when one ships. Add a comment that references the upstream change.

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Review comment at @src/devices/Cargo.toml at line 44:
Add a comment beside the imago dependency in Cargo.toml that references the
upstream PR and notes to switch to a crates.io release once available; retain
the existing pinned revision and features.

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Review comments at @src/devices/src/virtio/block/worker.rs:
- Line 284: In the block worker handling `read_discard_range` and WRITE_ZEROES
requests, return `VIRTIO_BLK_S_UNSUPP` before backend access when the disk is
read-only; also reject requests containing unknown flag bits with the
unsupported status.

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- Line 44: Add a comment beside the imago dependency in Cargo.toml that
references the upstream PR and notes to switch to a crates.io release once
available; retain the existing pinned revision and features.

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src/devices/Cargo.toml (1)

44-44: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Manage the long-term availability of the Git-hosted imago dependency.

Cargo.lock is committed and pins revision 0923b1c9ff3102a9ac57a9615e729c09aa91a5c3. That revision is currently reachable from refs/heads/boxlite/punch-hole. These controls do not vendor the source or ensure future maintenance. If this fork is required long term, upstream the changes or vendor or publish the crate. Otherwise, document when it will be replaced.

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Review comment at @src/devices/Cargo.toml at line 44:
Address the long-term availability of the Git-hosted imago dependency by
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