When we switched NBD to use coroutines for qemu 2.9 (in particular,
commit a12a712a), we introduced a regression: if a server sends us
garbage (such as a corrupted magic number), we quit the read loop
but do not stop sending further queued commands, resulting in the
client hanging when it never reads the response to those additional
commands. In qemu 2.8, we properly detected that the server is no
longer reliable, and cancelled all existing pending commands with
EIO, then tore down the socket so that all further command attempts
get EPIPE.
Restore the proper behavior of quitting (almost) all communication
with a broken server: Once we know we are out of sync or otherwise
can't trust the server, we must assume that any further incoming
data is unreliable and therefore end all pending commands with EIO,
and quit trying to send any further commands. As an exception, we
still (try to) send NBD_CMD_DISC to let the server know we are going
away (in part, because it is easier to do that than to further
refactor nbd_teardown_connection, and in part because it is the
only command where we do not have to wait for a reply).
Based on a patch by Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy.
A malicious server can be created with the following hack,
followed by setting NBD_SERVER_DEBUG to a non-zero value in the
environment when running qemu-nbd:
| --- a/nbd/server.c
| +++ b/nbd/server.c
| @@ -919,6 +919,17 @@ static int nbd_send_reply(QIOChannel *ioc, NBDReply *reply, Error **errp)
| stl_be_p(buf + 4, reply->error);
| stq_be_p(buf + 8, reply->handle);
|
| + static int debug;
| + static int count;
| + if (!count++) {
| + const char *str = getenv("NBD_SERVER_DEBUG");
| + if (str) {
| + debug = atoi(str);
| + }
| + }
| + if (debug && !(count % debug)) {
| + buf[0] = 0;
| + }
| return nbd_write(ioc, buf, sizeof(buf), errp);
| }
Reported-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20170814213426.24681-1-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
72b6ffc766