We want to be able to detect whether a given qemu NBD server is
exposing the right export(s) and dirty bitmaps, at least for
regression testing. We could use 'nbd-client -l' from the upstream
NBD project to list exports, but it's annoying to rely on
out-of-tree binaries; furthermore, nbd-client doesn't necessarily
know about all of the qemu NBD extensions. Thus, we plan on adding
a new mode to qemu-nbd that merely sniffs all possible information
from the server during handshake phase, then disconnects and dumps
the information.
This patch continues the work of the previous patch, by adding the
ability to track the list of available meta contexts into
NBDExportInfo. It benefits from the recent refactoring patches
with a new nbd_list_meta_contexts() that reuses much of the same
framework as setting a meta context.
Note: a malicious server could exhaust memory of a client by feeding
an unending loop of contexts; perhaps we could place a limit on how
many we are willing to receive. But this is no different from our
earlier analysis on a server sending an unending list of exports,
and the death of a client due to memory exhaustion when the client
was going to exit soon anyways is not really a denial of service
attack.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Message-Id: <20190117193658.16413-19-eblake@redhat.com>
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