Notably, patch 2 introduces blk_try_blockalign. If it is acked by the block layer maintainers I can submit the patch myself for inclusion.
Paolo Paolo Bonzini (2): nbd: do not check request length except for reads and writes nbd: do not exit on failed memory allocation block/block-backend.c | 5 +++++ include/sysemu/block-backend.h | 1 + nbd.c | 20 ++++++++++++-------- 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.5.0