If an NBD server advertises a size that is not a multiple of a sector,
the block layer rounds up that size, even though we set info.size to
the exact byte value sent by the server. The block layer then proceeds
to let us read or query block status on the hole that it added past
EOF, which the NBD server is unlikely to be happy with. Fortunately,
qemu as a server never advertizes an unaligned size, so we generally
don't run into this problem; but the nbdkit server makes it easy to
test:
$ printf %1000d 1 > f1
$ ~/nbdkit/nbdkit -fv file f1 & pid=$!
$ qemu-img convert -f raw nbd://localhost:10809 f2
$ kill $pid
$ qemu-img compare f1 f2
Pre-patch, the server attempts a 1024-byte read, which nbdkit
rightfully rejects as going beyond its advertised 1000 byte size; the
conversion fails and the output files differ (not even the first
sector is copied, because qemu-img does not follow ddrescue's habit of
trying smaller reads to get as much information as possible in spite
of errors). Post-patch, the client's attempts to read (and query block
status, for new enough nbdkit) are properly truncated to the server's
length, with sane handling of the hole the block layer forced on
us. Although f2 ends up as a larger file (1024 bytes instead of 1000),
qemu-img compare shows the two images to have identical contents for
display to the guest.
I didn't add iotests coverage since I didn't want to add a dependency
on nbdkit in iotests. I also did NOT patch write, trim, or write
zeroes - these commands continue to fail (usually with ENOSPC, but
whatever the server chose), because we really can't write to the end
of the file, and because 'qemu-img convert' is the most common case
where we care about being tolerant (which is read-only). Perhaps we
could truncate the request if the client is writing zeros to the tail,
but that seems like more work, especially if the block layer is fixed
in 4.1 to track byte-accurate sizing (in which case this patch would
be reverted as unnecessary).
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190329042750.14704-5-eblake@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
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