Re: [Qemu-stable] [Nbd] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] nbd: fix trim/discard commands with a length bigger than NBD_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE

[Wouter Verhelst]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 04:38:29PM +0100, Alex Bligh wrote:
> On 10 May 2016, at 16:29, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
> > So the kernel is currently one of the clients that does NOT honor block
> > sizes, and as such, servers should be prepared for ANY size up to
> > UINT_MAX (other than DoS handling).
> 
> Or not to permit a connection.

Right -- and this is why I was recommending against making this a MUST in the
first place.

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-- 
< 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