Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sheepdog: discard the payload if the header is invalid

[Liu Yuan]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 10:05:38AM +0800, Liu Yuan wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 09:51:00PM -0400, Jeff Cody wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 09:29:31AM +0800, Liu Yuan wrote:
> > > From: Liu Yuan <address@hidden>
> > > 
> > > We need to discard the payload if we get a invalid header due to whatever 
> > > reason
> > > to avoid data stream curruption.
> > 
> > If the header is invalid / corrupted, how can rsp.data_length be
> > trusted?  Out of curiosity, is this an issue you are seeing occur "in
> > the wild"?

For a second thought, we might not need this patch for the upstream because of
auto-connection feature, which close the socket to bury the whole buffer.

But old QEMU without auto-reconnection, might need this patch to drain the
buffer.

Thanks,
Yuan

> 
> This is the defensive patch. Header is invalid in the sense that only rsp.id 
> is
> invalid due to sheepdog driver bugs, for e.g., the request was misplaced after
> being sent or duplicated requests sending to sheep daemon and get the 
> duplicated
> responses for the same request.
> 
> Actually in the late 2012 we had seen this problem but we didn't find the root
> cause how this happened by looking at the code statically and the problem was
> gone silently while we restructured the code.
> 
> But yesterday some centos6 users reported to me the problem of
> 'cannot find aio_req' and hang the guest disk. That QEMU's sheepdog driver was
> rather old and would bump rsp.id mismatch problem as we did in the late 2012.
> By looking at the code again, I found this error handling problem. However,
> this patch is not aimed to solve the rsp.id mismatch problem (If it still 
> exist)
> but just a defensive one after this problem happens.
> 
> Thanks,
> Yuan