[pve-devel] applied: [PATCH qemu-server] fix #3683: agent file-write: enable user to encode the content themselves

[Dominik Csapak]

On 2/10/22 16:31, Thomas Lamprecht wrote:
> On 10.02.22 15:52, Dominik Csapak wrote:
>> by adding an optional parameter 'encode' (enabled by default). When it
>> is disabled, the content must be base64 encoded already. This
>> way, users can send a binary file to the vm by base64 encoding it
>> themselves
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dominik Csapak <d.csapak at proxmox.com>
>> ---
>>   PVE/API2/Qemu/Agent.pm | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
>>   1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>>
> 
> applied, with some cleanups in general as followup and another one dropping
> the base64 check with the assumption that it can be relatively expensive, the
> user needs to turn off auto-encode explicitly already and QEMU/QGA should be
> able to cope with bogus input - or do you know a case when this isn't true?
> As then we can just revert it again.
> 
>   thanks!


no, i just did it to safeguard in the api instead, but checking again
they return "Base64 data contains invalid characters" for bogus
data anyway so that's better

thanks