These values aren't used in this case. Currently, the from field in the request sent by the nbd kernel module leading to a false error message when ending the connection with the client.
$ qemu-nbd some.img -v // After nbd-client -d /dev/nbd0 nbd.c:nbd_trip():L1031: From: 18446744073709551104, Len: 0, Size: 20971520, Offset: 0 nbd.c:nbd_trip():L1032: requested operation past EOF--bad client? nbd.c:nbd_receive_request():L638: read failed Signed-off-by: Hani Benhabiles <h...@linux.com> --- nbd.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/nbd.c b/nbd.c index e5084b6..dc076d7 100644 --- a/nbd.c +++ b/nbd.c @@ -1001,6 +1001,7 @@ static void nbd_trip(void *opaque) struct nbd_request request; struct nbd_reply reply; ssize_t ret; + uint32_t type; TRACE("Reading request."); if (client->closing) { @@ -1023,8 +1024,8 @@ static void nbd_trip(void *opaque) reply.error = -ret; goto error_reply; } - - if ((request.from + request.len) > exp->size) { + type = request.type & NBD_CMD_MASK_COMMAND; + if (type != NBD_CMD_DISC && (request.from + request.len) > exp->size) { LOG("From: %" PRIu64 ", Len: %u, Size: %" PRIu64 ", Offset: %" PRIu64 "\n", request.from, request.len, @@ -1033,7 +1034,7 @@ static void nbd_trip(void *opaque) goto invalid_request; } - switch (request.type & NBD_CMD_MASK_COMMAND) { + switch (type) { case NBD_CMD_READ: TRACE("Request type is READ"); -- 1.8.3.2