Re: [Nbd] [PATCH] Fix flags processing to avoid bogus read-only export

[Alex Bligh <alex@...872...>]

On 4 May 2016, at 11:45, Alex Bligh <alex@...872...> wrote:

> As described here:
>  https://www.mail-archive.com/nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net/msg03878.html
> 
> NBD clients prior to 3.10 incorrectly attempt to merge the server flags
> with the transmission flags. This means that any such client cannot connect
> to a server (e.g. NBD server post 3.10, gonbdserver) which supports
> NBD_FLAG_NO_ZEROES without making the export read-only.
> 
> This one line fix avoids the issue by simply passing the kernel the
> transmission flags without an attempt to merge them. This is the
> behaviour nbd-client (post 3.10) does, and also qemu's current behaviour.

This is against 3.7, obviously.

If people are OK about this, how do I get this upstream? I'm happy
to file an Ubuntu bug but I'm wondering if Wouter is the Debian
maintainer, and indeed whether we (I?) can simply push it as a branch.

-- 
Alex Bligh