Eric,

On 6 Apr 2016, at 17:46, Eric Blake <[email protected]> wrote:

> A server that sticks a super-long UTF-8 string in an error reply could
> cause problems for clients.  Should we have an upper bound on the length
> permissible in NBD_REP_ERR_*, such as 4096, and permit clients to
> disconnect if the server sends a length larger than that, so that
> clients can usefully read the error message into a stack-local buffer
> rather than having to heap-allocate and worry about a rogue server
> sending a message as large as 2^32 bytes?

+1. Similarly with export names.

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Alex Bligh




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