similar to: [PATCH nbdkit v2] protocol: Implement NBD_OPT_GO.

This is only lightly tested (against just qemu NBD client), and the code might be structured a little better as the _negotiate_handshake_newstyle_options function has now grown to be huge. Anyway works for me. Rich.

These are a couple of patches in preparation for the Block Status implementation. While the patches (especially the second one) are very large they are really just elementary code motion. Rich.

qemu is about to add 'qemu-nbd --list', which exercises NBD_OPT_LIST and NBD_OPT_INFO to give the user as much detail as possible about an export without actually connecting to it. For that to display more than the export name when nbdkit is the server, we need to implement NBD_OPT_INFO. Thankfully, the NBD spec intentionally made the command very similar to NBD_OPT_GO, to the point that

Since the v1 series (0/4, at [1]), I've applied patches 1 and 2, rewritten patch 3 [Forbid NUL in export and context names] into patch 4 here, patch 4 there turned into patch 6 here, and everything else here is new. [1]https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00180.html I don't know if there is a handy reusable function for checking whether a string contains valid

Updated based on other changes that have happened in the meantime: - rely more on cleanup.h (throughout) - split structured read for easier review (patch 2 and 3 were combined in v1) - rely on nbdkit not leaking a server's partial answer (patch 3) - add tests (patch 5) - other bug fixes I found while testing it - drop EOVERFLOW patch for now; it will be separate once upstream NBD protocol

I'm hoping to implement .extents for the nbd plugin; this is a prerequisite. I'm not sure about patch 3 - if we like it, I'll squash it to 2, if we don't, I think we are okay just dropping it. I'm also wondering if we have to worry about malicious plugins that don't populate the entire .pread buffer in an effort to get nbdkit to expose portions of the heap; my patch 7 loses

--- src/connections.c | 233 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- src/protocol.h | 27 ++++-- 2 files changed, 209 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/connections.c b/src/connections.c index ba6e91d..4e9b191 100644 --- a/src/connections.c +++ b/src/connections.c @@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ struct connection { void **handles; size_t nr_handles; + uint32_t cflags;

Experimental and only very lightly tested so far. Rich.

We should have only one NBD protocol file. Let's make nbdkit's version the canonical one, and use it in libnbd. Rich.

The previous incomplete patch was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00049.html based on earlier discussion here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00047.html In v2: - The previous patch was incomplete. This version completes it by adding tests and extending nbdkit-sh-plugin. - nbdkit_export_name now returns NULL for error,

This is the sort of thing I had in mind for option (1) here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2019-September/msg00047.html It does reveal that the way we currently list exports is naive to say the least ... Rich.

Patch 1 played with an early draft of Rich's Fedora 30 libnbd package: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1713767#c17 Note that comment 21 provides a newer package 0.1.1-1 with a different API; and that libnbd has more unreleased API changes in the pipeline (whether that will be called 0.2 or 0.1.2); so we'll have to tweak things based on what is actually available in distros.

libnbd-0.1.2-1 is now available in Fedora 29/30 updates-testing, although it was not compiled against libxml2 so it lacks uri support (I ended up testing patch 4 with a self-built libnbd). Diffs since v1 - rebase to master, bump from libnbd 0.1 to 0.1.2, add URI support, better timing results Still not done - patch 5 needs associated tests Eric Blake (5): nbd: Check for libnbd nbd:

The first one is the nastiest - it is an assertion failure caused by a spec-compliant client and introduced by our security fix that was released in 1.14.1. Eric Blake (4): server: Fix regression for NBD_OPT_INFO before NBD_OPT_GO server: Fix back-to-back SET_META_CONTEXT server: Forbid NUL in export and context names server: Fix OPT_GO on different export than SET_META_CONTEXT

v1 was here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2020-February/msg00081.html v2 replaces struct connection *conn = GET_CONN; with GET_CONN; which sets conn implicitly and asserts that it is non-NULL. If we actually want to test if conn is non-NULL or behave differently, then you must use threadlocal_get_conn() instead, and some existing uses do that. Rich.

libnbd-0.1.4-1 is now available in Fedora 29/30 updates testing. Diffs since v2 - rebase to master, bump from libnbd 0.1.2 to 0.1.3+, add tests to TLS usage which flushed out the need to turn relative pathnames into absolute, doc tweaks Now that the testsuite covers TLS and libnbd has been fixed to provide the things I found lacking when developing v2, I'm leaning towards pushing this on

The third patch is a large but mechanical change which gets rid of passing around struct connection * entirely within the server, preferring instead to reference the connection through thread-local storage. I hope this is a gateway to simplifying other parts of the code. Rich.

With some crufty sed scripts we can generate functions that map from NBD protocol flags (eg. NBD_CMD_READ) to strings ("NBD_CMD_READ"). This works on GNU sed and with FreeBSD, also with GNU sed's --posix option, so I guess the sed code is POSIX-compatible. Rich.

Necessary when writing a client that wants to avoid unnecessary EINVAL errors from sending unaligned requests. At some point, we may want to add synchronous convenience API wrappers that do request splitting or read-modify-write to obey server constraints while still appearing to the library client as accepting any possible request. But such a wrapper should only be synchronous and not copied to

Actually I was wrong, there *is* one substantive change over v1, which is this: > + /* The client is buggy. The last option must be NBD_OPT_GO or > + * NBD_OPT_EXPORT_NAME. > + */ > + else { > + nbdkit_error ("client options list didn't finish with NBD_OPT_GO " > + "or NBD_OPT_EXPORT_NAME"); > + return -1; > + } > + >