Add -f FMT / --format FMT arg to qemu-nbd

Currently the qemu-nbd program will auto-detect the format of
any disk it is given. This behaviour is known to be insecure.
For example, if qemu-nbd initially exposes a 'raw' file to an
unprivileged app, and that app runs

   'qemu-img create -f qcow2 -o backing_file=/etc/shadow /dev/nbd0'

then the next time the app is started, the qemu-nbd will now
detect it as a 'qcow2' file and expose /etc/shadow to the
unprivileged app.

The only way to avoid this is to explicitly tell qemu-nbd what
disk format to use on the command line, completely disabling
auto-detection. This patch adds a '-f' / '--format' arg for
this purpose, mirroring what is already available via qemu-img
and qemu commands.

  qemu-nbd --format raw -p 9000 evil.img

will now always use raw, regardless of what format 'evil.img'
looks like it contains

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
[Use errx, not err. - Paolo]
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qemu-nbd.texi b/qemu-nbd.texi
index 5f3f3e3276..6055ec693b 100644
--- a/qemu-nbd.texi
+++ b/qemu-nbd.texi
@@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ Export QEMU disk image using NBD protocol.
   disconnect the specified device
 @item -e, --shared=@var{num}
   device can be shared by @var{num} clients (default @samp{1})
+@item -f, --format=@var{fmt}
+  force block driver for format @var{fmt} instead of auto-detecting
 @item -t, --persistent
   don't exit on the last connection
 @item -v, --verbose