09.11.2017 00:57, Eric Blake wrote:
The NBD spec was recently clarified to state that a read of length 0
should not be attempted by a compliant client; but that a server must
still handle it correctly in an unspecified manner (that is, either
a successful no-op or an error reply, but not a crash) [1]. However,
it also implies that NBD_REPLY_TYPE_OFFSET_DATA must have a non-zero
payload length, but our existing code was replying with a chunk
that a picky client could reject as invalid because it was missing
a payload.
We are already doing successful no-ops for 0-length writes and for
non-structured reads; so for consistency, we want structured reply
reads to also be a no-op. The easiest way to do this is to return
a NBD_REPLY_TYPE_NONE chunk; this is best done via a new helper
function (especially since future patches for other structured
replies may benefit from using the same helper).
[1] https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/commit/ee926037
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsement...@virtuozzo.com>
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Best regards,
Vladimir
