Re: [PATCH] nbd: Abort request on data reception failure

[Paul Clements]

Michal Feix wrote:
> When reading from nbd device, we need to receive all the data after
> receiving reply packet from the server - otherwise such request will
> never be ended.
>
> If socket is closed right after accepting reply control packet and in
> the middle of waiting for read data, nbd_read_stat() returns NULL and
> nbd_end_request() is not called.

That's right. We can't return NULL after pulling the request off the queue.

Thanks,
Paul

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