Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream' into staging

Block layer patches for 2.11.0-rc2

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* remotes/kevin/tags/for-upstream: (25 commits)
  iotests: Make 087 pass without AIO enabled
  block: Make bdrv_next() keep strong references
  qcow2: Fix overly broad madvise()
  qcow2: Refuse to get unaligned offsets from cache
  qcow2: Add bounds check to get_refblock_offset()
  block: Guard against NULL bs->drv
  qcow2: Unaligned zero cluster in handle_alloc()
  qcow2: check_errors are fatal
  qcow2: reject unaligned offsets in write compressed
  iotests: Add test for failing qemu-img commit
  tests: Add check-qobject for equality tests
  iotests: Add test for non-string option reopening
  block: qobject_is_equal() in bdrv_reopen_prepare()
  qapi: Add qobject_is_equal()
  qapi/qlist: Add qlist_append_null() macro
  qapi/qnull: Add own header
  qcow2: fix image corruption on commit with persistent bitmap
  iotests: test clearing unknown autoclear_features by qcow2
  block: Fix permissions in image activation
  qcow2: fix image corruption after committing qcow2 image into base
  ...

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>

1 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp/qnull.h b/include/qapi/qmp/qnull.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c992ee2ae1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qnull.h
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/*
+ * QNull
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2015 Red Hat, Inc.
+ *
+ * Authors:
+ *  Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, version 2.1
+ * or later.  See the COPYING.LIB file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
+#ifndef QNULL_H
+#define QNULL_H
+
+#include "qapi/qmp/qobject.h"
+
+struct QNull {
+    QObject base;
+};
+
+extern QNull qnull_;
+
+static inline QNull *qnull(void)
+{
+    QINCREF(&qnull_);
+    return &qnull_;
+}
+
+bool qnull_is_equal(const QObject *x, const QObject *y);
+
+#endif /* QNULL_H */