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authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2019-04-02 22:05:21 -0500
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>2019-04-08 13:42:24 -0500
commit6e280648d21d8c0aa8a101b62d0732cd1e608743 (patch)
treec520f79370b96f39d005d2e416549d783bebc267 /contrib
parent2178a569be16b18f04ed854d24fd2281b6a429c5 (diff)
nbd/server: Trace client noncompliance on unaligned requests
We've recently added traces for clients to flag server non-compliance; let's do the same for servers to flag client non-compliance. According to the spec, if the client requests NBD_INFO_BLOCK_SIZE, it is promising to send all requests aligned to those boundaries. Of course, if the client does not request NBD_INFO_BLOCK_SIZE, then it made no promises so we shouldn't flag anything; and because we are willing to handle clients that made no promises (the spec allows us to use NBD_REP_ERR_BLOCK_SIZE_REQD if we had been unwilling), we already have to handle unaligned requests (which the block layer already does on our behalf). So even though the spec allows us to return EINVAL for clients that promised to behave, it's easier to always answer unaligned requests. Still, flagging non-compliance can be useful in debugging a client that is trying to be maximally portable. Qemu as client used to have one spot where it sent non-compliant requests: if the server sends an unaligned reply to NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS, and the client was iterating over the entire disk, the next request would start at that unaligned point; this was fixed in commit a39286dd when the client was taught to work around server non-compliance; but is equally fixed if the server is patched to not send unaligned replies in the first place (yes, qemu 4.0 as server still has few such bugs, although they will be patched in 4.1). Fortunately, I did not find any more spots where qemu as client was non-compliant. I was able to test the patch by using the following hack to convince qemu-io to run various unaligned commands, coupled with serving 512-byte alignment by intentionally omitting '-f raw' on the server while viewing server traces. | diff --git i/nbd/client.c w/nbd/client.c | index 427980bdd22..1858b2aac35 100644 | --- i/nbd/client.c | +++ w/nbd/client.c | @@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ static int nbd_opt_info_or_go(QIOChannel *ioc, uint32_t opt, | nbd_send_opt_abort(ioc); | return -1; | } | + info->min_block = 1;//hack | if (!is_power_of_2(info->min_block)) { | error_setg(errp, "server minimum block size %" PRIu32 | " is not a power of two", info->min_block); Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20190403030526.12258-3-eblake@redhat.com> [eblake: address minor review nits] Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
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