The NBD spec was recently clarified to state that clients should
not send 0-length requests to the server, as the server behavior
is undefined [1]. We know that qemu-nbd's behavior is a successful
no-op (once it has filtered for read-only exports), but other NBD
implementations might return an error. To avoid any questionable
server implementations, it is better to just short-circuit such
requests on the client side (we are relying on the block layer to
already filter out requests such as invalid offset, write to a
read-only volume, and so forth); do the short-circuit as late as
possible to still benefit from protections from assertions that
the block layer is not violating our assumptions.
[1] https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/commit/ee926037
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20171108215703.9295-6-eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Eric Blake
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