Dan Smith 3eba22ff09 Make disk.extend() pass format to qemu-img
This fixes an instance of us passing a disk image to qemu-img for
resize where we don't constrain the format. As has previously been
identified, it is never safe to do that when the image itself is not
trusted. In this case, an instance with a previously-raw disk image
being used by imagebackend.Flat is susceptible to the user writing a
qcow2 (or other) header to their disk causing the unconstrained
qemu-img resize operation to interpret it as a qcow2 file.

Since Flat maintains the intended disk format in the disk.info file,
and since we would have safety-checked images we got from glance,
we should be able to trust the image.format specifier, which comes
from driver_format in imagebackend, which is read from disk.info.
Since only raw or qcow2 files should be resized anyway, we can further
constrain it to those.

Notes:
 1. qemu-img refuses to resize some types of VMDK files, but it may
    be able to resize others (there are many subformats). Technically,
    Flat will allow running an instance directly from a VMDK file,
    and so this change _could_ be limiting existing "unintentionally
    works" behavior.
 2. This assumes that disk.info is correct, present, etc. The code to
    handle disk.info will regenerate the file if it's missing or
    unreadable by probing the image without a safety check, which
    would be unsafe. However, that is a much more sophisticated attack,
    requiring either access to the system to delete the file or an
    errant operator action in the first place.

Change-Id: I07cbe90b7a7a0a416ef13fbc3a1b7e2272c90951
Closes-Bug: #2137507
Signed-off-by: Dan Smith <dansmith@redhat.com>
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OpenStack Nova
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OpenStack Nova provides a cloud computing fabric controller, supporting a wide
variety of compute technologies, including: libvirt (KVM, Xen, LXC and more),
VMware and OpenStack Ironic.

Use the following resources to learn more.

API
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community wants to focus on for the upcoming release. The plans for nova can
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