graphic: 0.764 semantic: 0.737 performance: 0.721 device: 0.656 files: 0.643 PID: 0.489 network: 0.475 vnc: 0.469 socket: 0.455 permissions: 0.302 boot: 0.275 debug: 0.257 KVM: 0.228 other: 0.118 qemu-io: Failure on a qcow2 image with the fuzzed refcount table 'qemu-io -c write' and 'qemu-io -c aio_write' crashes on a qcow2 image with a fuzzed refcount table. Sequence: 1. Unpack the attached archive, make a copy of test.img 2. Put copy.img and backing_img.file in the same directory 3. Execute qemu-io copy.img -c write 279552 322560 or qemu-io copy.img -c aio_write 836608 166400 Result: qemu-io was killed by SIGIOT with the reason: qemu-io: block/qcow2-cluster.c:1291: qcow2_alloc_cluster_offset: Assertion `*host_offset != 0' failed. qemu.git HEAD 69f87f713069f1f Hi, this has been fixed in upstream master (5f77ef69a195098baddfdc6d189f1b4a94587378): $ ./qemu-io copy.img -c 'aio_write 836608 166400' qcow2: Marking image as corrupt: Preventing invalid write on metadata (overlaps with qcow2_header); further corruption events will be suppressed aio_write failed: Input/output error Thanks for your report, Max