[Libguestfs] [nbdkit PATCH 2/4] server: Fix back-to-back SET_META_CONTEXT

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Sep 19 03:01:07 UTC 2019


The NBD spec says that if a client requests a 1-query SET_META_CONTEXT
for context "base:allocation", then changes its mind and requests a
1-query SET_META_CONTEXT for "other:context", only the final query
matters; in such a case, since we did not reply with a context the
second time, the client must not call NBD_CMD_BLOCK_STATUS, and the
server should fail it with EINVAL.  If the client actually wants two
contexts, it must request them in a 2-query SET_META_CONTEXT.
However, our code didn't reset the boolean between two uses of the
option, so we were not catching an invalid clients that requests block
status in spite of their second SET_META_CONTEXT.

Note that there are no known clients in the wild that can actually
perform this secondary SET_META_CONTEXT request; this was found by
inspection.  As nbdkit does not crash in this situation, I don't see
the point in hacking libnbd to make it possible to become such a
client.

Fixes: 26455d45
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>
---
 server/protocol-handshake-newstyle.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/server/protocol-handshake-newstyle.c b/server/protocol-handshake-newstyle.c
index 06fc53ad..38978c67 100644
--- a/server/protocol-handshake-newstyle.c
+++ b/server/protocol-handshake-newstyle.c
@@ -566,10 +566,10 @@ negotiate_handshake_newstyle_options (struct connection *conn)
         debug ("newstyle negotiation: %s: %s count: %d", optname,
                option == NBD_OPT_LIST_META_CONTEXT ? "query" : "set",
                nr_queries);
+        if (option == NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT)
+          conn->meta_context_base_allocation = false;
         if (nr_queries == 0) {
-          if (option == NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT)
-            conn->meta_context_base_allocation = false;
-          else /* LIST */ {
+          if (option == NBD_OPT_LIST_META_CONTEXT) {
             if (send_newstyle_option_reply_meta_context
                 (conn, option, NBD_REP_META_CONTEXT,
                  0, "base:allocation") == -1)
-- 
2.21.0




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