graphic: 0.764 semantic: 0.737 performance: 0.721 device: 0.656 files: 0.643 mistranslation: 0.596 ppc: 0.516 PID: 0.489 network: 0.475 vnc: 0.469 x86: 0.457 socket: 0.455 kernel: 0.420 architecture: 0.396 i386: 0.393 risc-v: 0.383 arm: 0.364 user-level: 0.334 TCG: 0.316 permissions: 0.302 register: 0.287 peripherals: 0.280 hypervisor: 0.280 boot: 0.275 virtual: 0.258 debug: 0.257 VMM: 0.233 KVM: 0.228 assembly: 0.196 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