[Libguestfs] [PATCH nbdkit 0/4] Reflection plugin, peer name.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Sep 15, 2019 at 03:55:41PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>  - Plugins could change content based on client.  (The fourth patch in
>    the series is a PoC of this implemented in the new reflection
>    plugin.)  Be cautious about combining this feature with multi-conn
>    as it's not obviously always safe to do.

Given this commit, I guess we should squash in the following to the
4th patch:

diff --git a/plugins/reflection/reflection.c b/plugins/reflection/reflection.c
index a0d7c60..f765557 100644
--- a/plugins/reflection/reflection.c
+++ b/plugins/reflection/reflection.c
@@ -303,11 +303,22 @@ reflection_get_size (void *handle)
   return (int64_t) h->len;
 }
 
-/* Read-only plugin so multi-conn is safe. */
 static int
 reflection_can_multi_conn (void *handle)
 {
-  return 1;
+  switch (mode) {
+    /* Safe for exportname modes since clients should only request
+     * multi-conn with the same export name.
+     */
+  case MODE_EXPORTNAME:
+  case MODE_BASE64EXPORTNAME:
+    return 1;
+    /* Unsafe for mode=address because all multi-conn connections
+     * won't necessarily originate from the same client address.
+     */
+  case MODE_ADDRESS:
+    return 0;
+  }
 }
 
 /* Cache. */


Rich.

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