Read image files with QImageReader using QtConcurrent

I am trying to use QImageReader to read portions of an image file at a time (per Tile), so that for very large images they are not read into memory from disk until they need to be displayed.

It seems liek I am running into some thread safety issues.

This is what I currently have:

#include "rastertile.h"

QMutex RasterTile::mutex;
RasterTile::RasterTile()
{
}

//RasterTile::RasterTile(QImageReader *reader, int nBlocksX, int nBlocksY, int xoffset, int yoffset, int nXBlockSize, int nYBlockSize)
RasterTile::RasterTile(QString filename, int nBlocksX, int nBlocksY, int xoffset, int yoffset, int nXBlockSize, int nYBlockSize)

    : Tile(nBlocksX, nBlocksY, xoffset, yoffset, nXBlockSize, nYBlockSize)
{
        this->reader = new QImageReader(filename);
        connect(&watcher,SIGNAL(finished()),this,SLOT(updateSceneSlot()));
}


void RasterTile::paint(QPainter *painter, const QStyleOptionGraphicsItem *option,QWidget *widget)
{
    if(image.isNull())
    {
        TilePainter=painter;
        TileOption=option;
        TileWidget=widget;
        future = QtConcurrent::run(this, &RasterTile::LoadTilePixmap);
        watcher.setFuture(future);

    }else
    {
        QRectF imageRect = image.rect();
        painter->drawImage(imageRect, image);
    }

}

QImage RasterTile::LoadTilePixmap()
{
    QMutexLocker locker(&mutex);

    QImage img(nBlockXSize, nBlockYSize, QImage::Format_RGB32);

    QRect rect(tilePosX*nBlockXSize, tilePosY*nBlockYSize, nBlockXSize, nBlockYSize);

    reader->setClipRect(rect);
    reader->read(&img);
    if(reader->error())
    {
        qDebug("Not null error");
        qDebug()<<"Error string is: "<<reader->errorString();
    }
    return img;

}

So this is basically instantiating a new reader for each tile, and update the "image" variable of the superclass, which I can then paint.

This seems to give me a lot of errors from the reader, which simply say "Unable to read image data"

I think this is probably something to do with many tiles accessing the same file, but I dont know how to prove that, or fix it.

I think Qt uses libjpeg and libpng and whatever else to read various image formats.