then libvirt was creating a chain 2 deep before realizing it
had hit a loop; furthermore, virStorageFileChainCheckBroken
was not identifying the chain as broken. With this patch,
the loop is detected when the chain is only 1 deep; still
enough for storage volume XML to display the file, but now
with a proper error report about where the loop was found.
This patch adds a parameter to virStorageFileGetMetadataRecurse,
so that errors at the top of the chain remain unchanged; messages
issued for backing files now use the name provided by the user
instead of the canonical name (for VDSM, which uses relative
symlinks to device mapper block devices, this is actually more
useful).
* src/util/virstoragefile.c (virStorageFileGetMetadataRecurse):
Add parameter, require canonical path up front. Mark chain
broken on OOM or loop detection.
(virStorageFileGetMetadata): Pass in canonical name.