On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 3:10 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
 On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:17:36AM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
 > On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:14 AM Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > This plugin simulates errors in pread, pwrite, and extents. This is
 > > useful for testing error handling in NBD clients, and understanding how
 > > plugin exceptions are reported to the NBD client.
 > > ---
 > >  plugins/python/Makefile.am       |  1 +
 > >  plugins/python/examples/error.py | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 > >  2 files changed, 78 insertions(+)
 > >  create mode 100644 plugins/python/examples/error.py
 > >
 > > diff --git a/plugins/python/Makefile.am b/plugins/python/Makefile.am
 > > index eecd7e89..e6e6c9e6 100644
 > > --- a/plugins/python/Makefile.am
 > > +++ b/plugins/python/Makefile.am
 > > @@ -27,20 +27,21 @@
 > >  # ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY,
 > >  # OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT
 > >  # OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
 > >  # SUCH DAMAGE.
 > >
 > >  include $(top_srcdir)/common-rules.mk
 > >
 > >  EXTRA_DIST = \
 > >         nbdkit-python-plugin.pod \
 > >         examples/file.py \
 > > +       examples/error.py \
 > >         examples/imageio.py \
 > >         examples/ramdisk.py \
 > >         examples/url.py \
 > >         $(NULL)
 > >
 > >  if HAVE_PYTHON
 > >
 > >  plugin_LTLIBRARIES = nbdkit-python-plugin.la
 > >
 > >  nbdkit_python_plugin_la_SOURCES = \
 > > diff --git a/plugins/python/examples/error.py
b/plugins/python/examples/error.py
 > > new file mode 100644
 > > index 00000000..0331a83e
 > > --- /dev/null
 > > +++ b/plugins/python/examples/error.py
 > > @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
 > > +# Example Python plugin.
 > > +#
 > > +# This plugin simulates errors for testing NBD client error hanlding.
 > > +# Every odd call will fail, and every even call will succeed, unless
 > > +# there a real error accesing the specified file.
 > > +#
 > > +# This example can be freely used for any purpose.
 > > +
 > > +# Run it from the build directory like this:
 > > +#
 > > +#   ./nbdkit -f -v python ./plugins/python/examples/error.py file=test.img
 > > +#
 > > +# Or run it after installing nbdkit like this:
 > > +#
 > > +#   nbdkit -f -v python ./plugins/python/examples/error.py file=test.img
 > > +#
 > > +# The -f -v arguments are optional.  They cause the server to stay in
 > > +# the foreground and print debugging, which is useful when testing.
 > > +
 > > +import os
 > > +
 > > +API_VERSION = 2
 > > +
 > > +filename = None
 > > +calls = 0
 > > +
 > > +
 > > +def config(key, value):
 > > +    global filename
 > > +    assert key == "file"
 > > +    filename = value
 > > +
 > > +
 > > +def open(readonly):
 > > +    flags = os.O_RDONLY if readonly else os.O_RDWR
 > > +    return {"fd": os.open(filename, flags)}
 > > +
 > > +
 > > +def can_extents(h):
 > > +    return True
 > > +
 > > +
 > > +def get_size(h):
 > > +    return os.stat(h["fd"]).st_size
 > > +
 > > +
 > > +def extents(h, count, offset, flags):
 > > +    global calls
 > > +    calls += 1
 > > +    if calls % 2:
 > > +        raise RuntimeError(f"extents error offset={offset}
count={count}")
 > > +
 > > +    # We don't really support extents, so we report the entire file as
 > > +    # data.
 > > +    return [(offset, count, 0)]
 > > +
 > > +
 > > +def pread(h, buf, offset, flags):
 > > +    global calls
 > > +    calls += 1
 > > +    if calls % 2:
 > > +        raise RuntimeError(f"pread error offset={offset}
count={len(buf)}")
 > > +
 > > +    os.lseek(h["fd"], offset, os.SEEK_SET)
 > > +    n = os.readv(h['fd'], [buf])
 >
 > We can use os.preadv in current python, but I'm trying to keep this plugin
 > useful on rhel 8 systems (python 3.6). os.preadv added in python 3.7.
 The default thread model for Python plugins is
 nbdkit.THREAD_MODEL_SERIALIZE_ALL_REQUESTS, ie. you cannot have two
 pread() functions racing to do lseek + readon the same file
 descriptor, so this should be safe.
 Reviewed-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> 
Pushed as 096a5dd07c560439ca7d2544d9df33062df2801e.