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Right now, nbd_receive_list() is only called by nbd_receive_query_exports(), which in turn is only called if the server lacks NBD_OPT_GO but has working option negotiation, and is merely used as a quality-of-implementation trick since servers can't give decent errors for NBD_OPT_EXPORT_NAME. However, servers that lack NBD_OPT_GO are becoming increasingly rare (nbdkit was a latecomer, in Aug 2018, but qemu has been such a server since commit f37708f6 in July 2017 and released in 2.10), so it no longer makes sense to micro-optimize that function for performance. Furthermore, when debugging a server's implementation, tracing the full reply (both names and descriptions) is useful, not to mention that upcoming patches adding 'qemu-nbd --list' will want to collect that data. And when you consider that a server can send an export name up to the NBD protocol length limit of 4k; but our current NBD_MAX_NAME_SIZE is only 256, we can't trace all valid server names without more storage, but 4k is large enough that the heap is better than the stack for long names. Thus, I'm changing the division of labor, with nbd_receive_list() now always malloc'ing a result on success (the malloc is bounded by the fact that we reject servers with a reply length larger than 32M), and moving the comparison to 'wantname' to the caller. There is a minor change in behavior where a server with 0 exports (an immediate NBD_REP_ACK reply) is now no longer distinguished from a server without LIST support (NBD_REP_ERR_UNSUP); this information could be preserved with a complication to the calling contract to provide a bit more information, but I didn't see the point. After all, the worst that can happen if our guess at a match is wrong is that the caller will get a cryptic disconnect when NBD_OPT_EXPORT_NAME fails (which is no different from what would happen if we had not tried LIST), while treating an empty list as immediate failure would prevent connecting to really old servers that really did lack LIST. Besides, NBD servers with 0 exports are rare (qemu can do it when using QMP nbd-server-start without nbd-server-add - but qemu understands NBD_OPT_GO and thus won't tickle this change in behavior). Fix the spelling of foundExport to match coding standards while in the area. 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: <20190117193658.16413-9-eblake@redhat.com>
QEMU README
===========
QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.
QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).
QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.
QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.
QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.
Building
========
QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Linux
https://qemu.org/Hosts/Mac
https://qemu.org/Hosts/W32
Submitting patches
==================
The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu.git
When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the HACKING and CODING_STYLE files.
Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website
https://qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
https://qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches
The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.
git clone https://git.qemu.org/git/qemu-web.git
https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/
A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.
For installation instructions, please go to
https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
The workflow with 'git-publish' is:
$ git checkout master -b my-feature
$ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.
Sending v2:
$ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
$ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
$ git publish
Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.
Bug reporting
=============
The QEMU project uses Launchpad as its primary upstream bug tracker. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/
If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via launchpad.
For additional information on bug reporting consult:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug
Contact
=======
The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC
- qemu-devel@nongnu.org
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
- #qemu on irc.oftc.net
Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:
https://qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere
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