nbd/client: Relax handling of large NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS reply
authorEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Thu, 3 May 2018 22:26:26 +0000 (17:26 -0500)
committerEric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Fri, 4 May 2018 13:23:39 +0000 (08:23 -0500)
The NBD spec is proposing a relaxation of NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS
where a server may have the final extent per context give a
length beyond the original request, if it can easily prove that
subsequent bytes have the same status, on the grounds that a
client can take advantage of this information for fewer block
status requests.  Since qemu 2.12 as a client always sends
NBD_CMD_FLAG_REQ_ONE, and rejects a server that sends extra
length, the upstream NBD spec will probably limit this behavior
to clients that don't request REQ_ONE semantics; but it doesn't
hurt to relax qemu to always be permissive of this server
behavior, even if it continues to use REQ_ONE.

CC: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20180503222626.1303410-1-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
block/nbd-client.c

index e7caf49fbb47e25161b709250a30d543702049bc..8d69eaaa32f84ef1d4a18c4ce5309e054cfc20fb 100644 (file)
@@ -259,14 +259,18 @@ static int nbd_parse_blockstatus_payload(NBDClientSession *client,
 
     if (extent->length == 0 ||
         (client->info.min_block && !QEMU_IS_ALIGNED(extent->length,
-                                                    client->info.min_block)) ||
-        extent->length > orig_length)
-    {
+                                                    client->info.min_block))) {
         error_setg(errp, "Protocol error: server sent status chunk with "
                    "invalid length");
         return -EINVAL;
     }
 
+    /* The server is allowed to send us extra information on the final
+     * extent; just clamp it to the length we requested. */
+    if (extent->length > orig_length) {
+        extent->length = orig_length;
+    }
+
     return 0;
 }