From: Pranay Srivastava <pranjas@gmail.com>
To: Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>
Cc: Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>,
"nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net"
<nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Nbd] [PATCH 2/2] nbd: Disallow ioctls on disconnected block device
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 19:01:47 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+aCy1GP2rKE8MFk7XXyj_j1CqFpKZ43ngSWvt7cKsSnPyJRqQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160716112632.GA7096@grep.be>
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 03:38:40PM +0530, Pranay Srivastava wrote:
>> Okay. So how about we include some negotiated key which goes in with every
>> request which the server could maintain for clients that can be checked while
>> resetting the connection with the same server?
>
> Wut?
>
>> So am I correct that this situation can
>> indeed happen or the server will throw an error back to client in case
>> the troubled
>> nbd-client is trying to reconnect to the original server but requests
>> are going to
>> another server?
>>
>> If yes to above query then what is the best effort we can do to avoid
>> such scenarios?
>
> Tell userspace not to do stupid things?
>
> This isn't a problem. The kernel assumes that whatever userspace does,
> once the connection is set up again everything's the way it was before.
> If that's not true, then userspace is to blame, not kernel space.
>
> Adding a "key" which we need to pass is going to make things wildly more
> complicated for no benefit.
Okay.
So let things roll for timeout but stop for disconnect.
>
> --
> < ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
> people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
> and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
> -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
--
---P.K.S
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-16 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-24 11:26 [PATCH 0/4]nbd: fixes for nbd Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-05-24 11:26 ` [PATCH 1/4] fix might_sleep warning on socket shutdown Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-05-30 12:06 ` Markus Pargmann
2016-05-24 11:26 ` [PATCH 2/4] fix various coding standard warnings Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-05-24 11:26 ` [PATCH 3/4] make nbd device wait for its users Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-05-30 10:44 ` Markus Pargmann
2016-05-24 11:26 ` [PATCH 4/4] use device_attr macros for sysfs attribute Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-05-30 3:35 ` [PATCH 0/4]nbd: fixes for nbd Pranay Srivastava
2016-05-30 12:27 ` Markus Pargmann
2016-06-02 10:24 ` [PATCH v2 0/5] nbd: " Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-06-02 10:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] nbd: fix might_sleep warning on socket shutdown Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-06-09 10:03 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-14 5:13 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-14 8:52 ` Markus Pargmann
2016-06-14 9:50 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-24 10:09 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] nbd: resolve bugs and limitations Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-06-24 10:09 ` [PATCH v3 1/3]nbd: fix might_sleep warning on socket shutdown Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-06-28 5:42 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-29 7:18 ` Markus Pargmann
2016-06-24 10:09 ` [PATCH v3 2/3]nbd: cleanup nbd_set_socket Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-06-24 10:09 ` [PATCH 3/3]nbd: make nbd device wait for its users Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-06-24 13:42 ` [Nbd] " Eric Blake
2016-06-25 17:56 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-25 18:01 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-29 7:06 ` Markus Pargmann
2016-06-29 7:15 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-02 10:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/5]nbd: cleanup nbd_set_socket Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-06-02 10:24 ` [PATCH v2 3/5]nbd: fix various coding standard warnings Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-06-02 10:25 ` [PATCH v2 4/5]nbd: make nbd device wait for its users Pranay Kr. Srivastava
2016-06-14 8:59 ` Markus Pargmann
2016-06-14 9:33 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-15 6:30 ` Markus Pargmann
2016-06-15 7:00 ` [Nbd] " Wouter Verhelst
2016-06-15 9:18 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-15 9:17 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-24 9:29 ` [PATCH 1/2] nbd: " Markus Pargmann
2016-06-24 9:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] nbd: Disallow ioctls on disconnected block device Markus Pargmann
2016-07-16 7:42 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-07-16 9:32 ` [Nbd] " Alex Bligh
2016-07-16 10:08 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-07-16 11:26 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-07-16 13:31 ` Pranay Srivastava [this message]
2016-06-24 9:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] nbd: make nbd device wait for its users Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-24 13:40 ` [Nbd] " Eric Blake
2016-06-25 17:52 ` Pranay Srivastava
2016-06-29 6:57 ` Markus Pargmann
2016-06-02 10:25 ` [PATCH v2 5/5]nbd: use device_attr macros for sysfs attribute Pranay Kr. Srivastava
[not found] ` <CA+aCy1E0S4ofa04xcO9qxQmuipaF5wdnrv3ubSvETn-rBYYisA@mail.gmail.com>
2016-06-06 11:07 ` [PATCH 0/4]nbd: fixes for nbd Pranay Srivastava
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