From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

Sheepdog already requires that if backing_file is present, that it be
another sheepdog image (see sd_co_create).  Meanwhile, we want to move
towards always being explicit about the backing format for other
drivers where it matters.  So for convenience, make qemu-img create -F
sheepdog work, while rejecting all other explicit formats (note that
this is only for QemuOpts usage; there is no change to the QAPI to
allow a format through -blockdev).

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200706203954.341758-4-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
---
 block/sheepdog.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/sheepdog.c b/block/sheepdog.c
index 27a30d17f4..548ce54cbc 100644
--- a/block/sheepdog.c
+++ b/block/sheepdog.c
@@ -2157,13 +2157,21 @@ static int coroutine_fn sd_co_create_opts(BlockDriver *drv,
                                           Error **errp)
 {
     BlockdevCreateOptions *create_options = NULL;
-    QDict *qdict, *location_qdict;
+    QDict *qdict = NULL, *location_qdict;
     Visitor *v;
-    char *redundancy;
+    char *redundancy = NULL;
     Error *local_err = NULL;
     int ret;
+    char *backing_fmt = NULL;
 
     redundancy = qemu_opt_get_del(opts, BLOCK_OPT_REDUNDANCY);
+    backing_fmt = qemu_opt_get_del(opts, BLOCK_OPT_BACKING_FMT);
+
+    if (backing_fmt && strcmp(backing_fmt, "sheepdog") != 0) {
+        error_setg(errp, "backing_file must be a sheepdog image");
+        ret = -EINVAL;
+        goto fail;
+    }
 
     qdict = qemu_opts_to_qdict(opts, NULL);
     qdict_put_str(qdict, "driver", "sheepdog");
@@ -2228,6 +2236,7 @@ fail:
     qapi_free_BlockdevCreateOptions(create_options);
     qobject_unref(qdict);
     g_free(redundancy);
+    g_free(backing_fmt);
     return ret;
 }
 
@@ -3185,6 +3194,11 @@ static QemuOptsList sd_create_opts = {
             .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
             .help = "File name of a base image"
         },
+        {
+            .name = BLOCK_OPT_BACKING_FMT,
+            .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
+            .help = "Must be 'sheepdog' if present",
+        },
         {
             .name = BLOCK_OPT_PREALLOC,
             .type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
-- 
2.25.4