Len field is already set to zero, but not the from field which is sent as 0xfffffffffffffe00. This makes no sense, and may cause confuse server implementations doing sanity checks (qemu-nbd is an example.)
Signed-off-by: Hani Benhabiles <h...@linux.com> --- Compared to v1: * Zero the request structure instead of conditionally zeroing specific fields. drivers/block/nbd.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c index 3a70ea2..8e1df52 100644 --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c @@ -243,14 +243,11 @@ static int nbd_send_req(struct nbd_device *nbd, struct request *req) struct nbd_request request; unsigned long size = blk_rq_bytes(req); + memset(&request, 0, sizeof(request)); request.magic = htonl(NBD_REQUEST_MAGIC); request.type = htonl(nbd_cmd(req)); - if (nbd_cmd(req) == NBD_CMD_FLUSH) { - /* Other values are reserved for FLUSH requests. */ - request.from = 0; - request.len = 0; - } else { + if (nbd_cmd(req) != NBD_CMD_FLUSH && nbd_cmd(req) != NBD_CMD_DISC) { request.from = cpu_to_be64((u64)blk_rq_pos(req) << 9); request.len = htonl(size); } -- 1.8.3.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/