Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] 9pfs: Stat response from server offset by 2 bytes

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue,  8 Nov 2011 16:55:17 +1100, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> From: Timothy Rule <trule@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> The 9P spec states that for the stat message the "stat[n]" structure shall be
> encoded at offset 7 in the 9P message (see §13.9 message Rstat).
> 
> The existing code is encoding a 2 byte value (hard coded 0 value) at
> offset 7 of the 9P message, and then follows with the "stat[n]" structure
> at offset 9 of the 9P message.
> 
> This patch removes the encoding of the 2 byte value which has the effect
> of moving the "stat[n]" structure from offset 9 to offset 7 in the 9P
> message Rstat.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Timothy Rule <trule@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> ---
>  hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.c b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.c
> index 01cf337..35d8851 100644
> --- a/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.c
> +++ b/hw/9pfs/virtio-9p.c
> @@ -1279,7 +1279,7 @@ static void v9fs_stat(void *opaque)
>      if (err < 0) {
>          goto out;
>      }
> -    offset += pdu_marshal(pdu, offset, "wS", 0, &v9stat);
> +    offset += pdu_marshal(pdu, offset, "S", &v9stat);
>      err = offset;
>      trace_v9fs_stat_return(pdu->tag, pdu->id, v9stat.mode,
>                             v9stat.atime, v9stat.mtime, v9stat.length);

The reason for that "w" is explained in the 9p2000 protocol RFC. Towards
the end of "wstat" message para we have

BUGS

    To make the contents of a directory, such as returned by read(5),
    easy to parse, each directory entry begins with a size field. For
    consistency, the entries in Twstat and Rstat messages also contain
    their size, which means the size appears twice. For example, the
    Rstat message is formatted as ``(4+1+2+2+n)[4] Rstat tag[2] n[2]
    (n-2)[2] type[2] dev[4]...,'' where n is the value returned by
    convD2M.

Also on the client side we do in p9_client_stat

	err = p9pdu_readf(req->rc, clnt->proto_version, "wS", &ignored, ret);
	if (err) {

So the above change will break existing client.

Any reason why you need to make the above change ?

-aneesh