diff --git a/Makefile.objs b/Makefile.objs
index 3ef6d80..dad4593 100644
--- a/Makefile.objs
+++ b/Makefile.objs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ block-obj-$(CONFIG_LINUX_AIO) += linux-aio.o
 
 block-nested-y += raw.o cow.o qcow.o vdi.o vmdk.o cloop.o dmg.o bochs.o vpc.o vvfat.o
 block-nested-y += qcow2.o qcow2-refcount.o qcow2-cluster.o qcow2-snapshot.o
-block-nested-y += parallels.o nbd.o blkdebug.o sheepdog.o
+block-nested-y += parallels.o nbd.o blkdebug.o sheepdog.o blkverify.o
 block-nested-$(CONFIG_WIN32) += raw-win32.o
 block-nested-$(CONFIG_POSIX) += raw-posix.o
 block-nested-$(CONFIG_CURL) += curl.o
diff --git a/block/blkverify.c b/block/blkverify.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ad4f3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/block/blkverify.c
@@ -0,0 +1,381 @@
+/*
+ * Block protocol for block driver correctness testing
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 IBM, Corp.
+ *
+ * This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2 or later.
+ * See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
+ */
+
+#include <stdarg.h>
+#include "block_int.h"
+
+typedef struct {
+    BlockDriverState *test_file;
+} BDRVBlkverifyState;
+
+typedef struct BlkverifyAIOCB BlkverifyAIOCB;
+struct BlkverifyAIOCB {
+    BlockDriverAIOCB common;
+    QEMUBH *bh;
+
+    /* Request metadata */
+    bool is_write;
+    int64_t sector_num;
+    int nb_sectors;
+
+    int ret;                    /* first completed request's result */
+    unsigned int done;          /* completion counter */
+    bool *finished;             /* completion signal for cancel */
+
+    QEMUIOVector *qiov;         /* user I/O vector */
+    QEMUIOVector raw_qiov;      /* cloned I/O vector for raw file */
+    void *buf;                  /* buffer for raw file I/O */
+
+    void (*verify)(BlkverifyAIOCB *acb);
+};
+
+static void blkverify_aio_cancel(BlockDriverAIOCB *blockacb)
+{
+    BlkverifyAIOCB *acb = (BlkverifyAIOCB *)blockacb;
+    bool finished = false;
+
+    /* Wait until request completes, invokes its callback, and frees itself */
+    acb->finished = &finished;
+    while (!finished) {
+        qemu_aio_wait();
+    }
+}
+
+static AIOPool blkverify_aio_pool = {
+    .aiocb_size         = sizeof(BlkverifyAIOCB),
+    .cancel             = blkverify_aio_cancel,
+};
+
+static void blkverify_err(BlkverifyAIOCB *acb, const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+    va_list ap;
+
+    va_start(ap, fmt);
+    fprintf(stderr, "blkverify: %s sector_num=%ld nb_sectors=%d ",
+            acb->is_write ? "write" : "read", acb->sector_num,
+            acb->nb_sectors);
+    vfprintf(stderr, fmt, ap);
+    fprintf(stderr, "\n");
+    va_end(ap);
+    exit(1);
+}
+
+/* Valid blkverify filenames look like blkverify:path/to/raw_image:path/to/image */
+static int blkverify_open(BlockDriverState *bs, const char *filename, int flags)
+{
+    BDRVBlkverifyState *s = bs->opaque;
+    int ret;
+    char *raw, *c;
+
+    /* Parse the blkverify: prefix */
+    if (strncmp(filename, "blkverify:", strlen("blkverify:"))) {
+        return -EINVAL;
+    }
+    filename += strlen("blkverify:");
+
+    /* Parse the raw image filename */
+    c = strchr(filename, ':');
+    if (c == NULL) {
+        return -EINVAL;
+    }
+
+    raw = strdup(filename);
+    raw[c - filename] = '\0';
+    ret = bdrv_file_open(&bs->file, raw, flags);
+    free(raw);
+    if (ret < 0) {
+        return ret;
+    }
+    filename = c + 1;
+
+    /* Open the test file */
+    s->test_file = bdrv_new("");
+    ret = bdrv_open(s->test_file, filename, flags, NULL);
+    if (ret < 0) {
+        bdrv_delete(s->test_file);
+        s->test_file = NULL;
+        return ret;
+    }
+
+    return 0;
+}
+
+static void blkverify_close(BlockDriverState *bs)
+{
+    BDRVBlkverifyState *s = bs->opaque;
+
+    bdrv_delete(s->test_file);
+    s->test_file = NULL;
+}
+
+static void blkverify_flush(BlockDriverState *bs)
+{
+    BDRVBlkverifyState *s = bs->opaque;
+
+    /* Only flush test file, the raw file is not important */
+    bdrv_flush(s->test_file);
+}
+
+static int64_t blkverify_getlength(BlockDriverState *bs)
+{
+    BDRVBlkverifyState *s = bs->opaque;
+
+    return bdrv_getlength(s->test_file);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Check that I/O vector contents are identical
+ *
+ * @a:          I/O vector
+ * @b:          I/O vector
+ * @ret:        Offset to first mismatching byte or -1 if match
+ */
+static ssize_t blkverify_iovec_compare(QEMUIOVector *a, QEMUIOVector *b)
+{
+    int i;
+    ssize_t offset = 0;
+
+    assert(a->niov == b->niov);
+    for (i = 0; i < a->niov; i++) {
+        size_t len = 0;
+        uint8_t *p = (uint8_t *)a->iov[i].iov_base;
+        uint8_t *q = (uint8_t *)b->iov[i].iov_base;
+
+        assert(a->iov[i].iov_len == b->iov[i].iov_len);
+        while (len < a->iov[i].iov_len && *p++ == *q++) {
+            len++;
+        }
+
+        offset += len;
+
+        if (len != a->iov[i].iov_len) {
+            return offset;
+        }
+    }
+    return -1;
+}
+
+typedef struct {
+    int src_index;
+    struct iovec *src_iov;
+    void *dest_base;
+} IOVectorSortElem;
+
+static int sortelem_cmp_src_base(const void *a, const void *b)
+{
+    const IOVectorSortElem *elem_a = a;
+    const IOVectorSortElem *elem_b = b;
+
+    /* Don't overflow */
+    if (elem_a->src_iov->iov_base < elem_b->src_iov->iov_base) {
+        return -1;
+    } else if (elem_a->src_iov->iov_base > elem_b->src_iov->iov_base) {
+        return 1;
+    } else {
+        return 0;
+    }
+}
+
+static int sortelem_cmp_src_index(const void *a, const void *b)
+{
+    const IOVectorSortElem *elem_a = a;
+    const IOVectorSortElem *elem_b = b;
+
+    return elem_a->src_index - elem_b->src_index;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Copy contents of I/O vector
+ *
+ * The relative relationships of overlapping iovecs are preserved.  This is
+ * necessary to ensure identical semantics in the cloned I/O vector.
+ */
+static void blkverify_iovec_clone(QEMUIOVector *dest, const QEMUIOVector *src,
+                                  void *buf)
+{
+    IOVectorSortElem sortelems[src->niov];
+    void *last_end;
+    int i;
+
+    /* Sort by source iovecs by base address */
+    for (i = 0; i < src->niov; i++) {
+        sortelems[i].src_index = i;
+        sortelems[i].src_iov = &src->iov[i];
+    }
+    qsort(sortelems, src->niov, sizeof(sortelems[0]), sortelem_cmp_src_base);
+
+    /* Allocate buffer space taking into account overlapping iovecs */
+    last_end = NULL;
+    for (i = 0; i < src->niov; i++) {
+        struct iovec *cur = sortelems[i].src_iov;
+        ptrdiff_t rewind = 0;
+
+        /* Detect overlap */
+        if (last_end && last_end > cur->iov_base) {
+            rewind = last_end - cur->iov_base;
+        }
+
+        sortelems[i].dest_base = buf - rewind;
+        buf += cur->iov_len - MIN(rewind, cur->iov_len);
+        last_end = MAX(cur->iov_base + cur->iov_len, last_end);
+    }
+
+    /* Sort by source iovec index and build destination iovec */
+    qsort(sortelems, src->niov, sizeof(sortelems[0]), sortelem_cmp_src_index);
+    for (i = 0; i < src->niov; i++) {
+        qemu_iovec_add(dest, sortelems[i].dest_base, src->iov[i].iov_len);
+    }
+}
+
+static BlkverifyAIOCB *blkverify_aio_get(BlockDriverState *bs, bool is_write,
+                                         int64_t sector_num, QEMUIOVector *qiov,
+                                         int nb_sectors,
+                                         BlockDriverCompletionFunc *cb,
+                                         void *opaque)
+{
+    BlkverifyAIOCB *acb = qemu_aio_get(&blkverify_aio_pool, bs, cb, opaque);
+
+    acb->bh = NULL;
+    acb->is_write = is_write;
+    acb->sector_num = sector_num;
+    acb->nb_sectors = nb_sectors;
+    acb->ret = -EINPROGRESS;
+    acb->done = 0;
+    acb->qiov = qiov;
+    acb->buf = NULL;
+    acb->verify = NULL;
+    acb->finished = NULL;
+    return acb;
+}
+
+static void blkverify_aio_bh(void *opaque)
+{
+    BlkverifyAIOCB *acb = opaque;
+
+    qemu_bh_delete(acb->bh);
+    if (acb->buf) {
+        qemu_iovec_destroy(&acb->raw_qiov);
+        qemu_vfree(acb->buf);
+    }
+    acb->common.cb(acb->common.opaque, acb->ret);
+    if (acb->finished) {
+        *acb->finished = true;
+    }
+    qemu_aio_release(acb);
+}
+
+static void blkverify_aio_cb(void *opaque, int ret)
+{
+    BlkverifyAIOCB *acb = opaque;
+
+    switch (++acb->done) {
+    case 1:
+        acb->ret = ret;
+        break;
+
+    case 2:
+        if (acb->ret != ret) {
+            blkverify_err(acb, "return value mismatch %d != %d", acb->ret, ret);
+        }
+
+        if (acb->verify) {
+            acb->verify(acb);
+        }
+
+        acb->bh = qemu_bh_new(blkverify_aio_bh, acb);
+        qemu_bh_schedule(acb->bh);
+        break;
+    }
+}
+
+static void blkverify_verify_readv(BlkverifyAIOCB *acb)
+{
+    ssize_t offset = blkverify_iovec_compare(acb->qiov, &acb->raw_qiov);
+    if (offset != -1) {
+        blkverify_err(acb, "contents mismatch in sector %ld",
+                      acb->sector_num + (offset / BDRV_SECTOR_SIZE));
+    }
+}
+
+static BlockDriverAIOCB *blkverify_aio_readv(BlockDriverState *bs,
+        int64_t sector_num, QEMUIOVector *qiov, int nb_sectors,
+        BlockDriverCompletionFunc *cb, void *opaque)
+{
+    BDRVBlkverifyState *s = bs->opaque;
+    BlkverifyAIOCB *acb = blkverify_aio_get(bs, false, sector_num, qiov,
+                                            nb_sectors, cb, opaque);
+
+    acb->verify = blkverify_verify_readv;
+    acb->buf = qemu_blockalign(bs->file, qiov->size);
+    qemu_iovec_init(&acb->raw_qiov, acb->qiov->niov);
+    blkverify_iovec_clone(&acb->raw_qiov, qiov, acb->buf);
+
+    if (!bdrv_aio_readv(s->test_file, sector_num, qiov, nb_sectors,
+                        blkverify_aio_cb, acb)) {
+        blkverify_aio_cb(acb, -EIO);
+    }
+    if (!bdrv_aio_readv(bs->file, sector_num, &acb->raw_qiov, nb_sectors,
+                        blkverify_aio_cb, acb)) {
+        blkverify_aio_cb(acb, -EIO);
+    }
+    return &acb->common;
+}
+
+static BlockDriverAIOCB *blkverify_aio_writev(BlockDriverState *bs,
+        int64_t sector_num, QEMUIOVector *qiov, int nb_sectors,
+        BlockDriverCompletionFunc *cb, void *opaque)
+{
+    BDRVBlkverifyState *s = bs->opaque;
+    BlkverifyAIOCB *acb = blkverify_aio_get(bs, true, sector_num, qiov,
+                                            nb_sectors, cb, opaque);
+
+    if (!bdrv_aio_writev(s->test_file, sector_num, qiov, nb_sectors,
+                         blkverify_aio_cb, acb)) {
+        blkverify_aio_cb(acb, -EIO);
+    }
+    if (!bdrv_aio_writev(bs->file, sector_num, qiov, nb_sectors,
+                         blkverify_aio_cb, acb)) {
+        blkverify_aio_cb(acb, -EIO);
+    }
+    return &acb->common;
+}
+
+static BlockDriverAIOCB *blkverify_aio_flush(BlockDriverState *bs,
+                                             BlockDriverCompletionFunc *cb,
+                                             void *opaque)
+{
+    BDRVBlkverifyState *s = bs->opaque;
+
+    /* Only flush test file, the raw file is not important */
+    return bdrv_aio_flush(s->test_file, cb, opaque);
+}
+
+static BlockDriver bdrv_blkverify = {
+    .format_name        = "blkverify",
+    .protocol_name      = "blkverify",
+
+    .instance_size      = sizeof(BDRVBlkverifyState),
+
+    .bdrv_getlength     = blkverify_getlength,
+
+    .bdrv_file_open     = blkverify_open,
+    .bdrv_close         = blkverify_close,
+    .bdrv_flush         = blkverify_flush,
+
+    .bdrv_aio_readv     = blkverify_aio_readv,
+    .bdrv_aio_writev    = blkverify_aio_writev,
+    .bdrv_aio_flush     = blkverify_aio_flush,
+};
+
+static void bdrv_blkverify_init(void)
+{
+    bdrv_register(&bdrv_blkverify);
+}
+
+block_init(bdrv_blkverify_init);
diff --git a/docs/blkverify.txt b/docs/blkverify.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d556dc4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/blkverify.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+= Block driver correctness testing with blkverify =
+
+== Introduction ==
+
+This document describes how to use the blkverify protocol to test that a block
+driver is operating correctly.
+
+It is difficult to test and debug block drivers against real guests.  Often
+processes inside the guest will crash because corrupt sectors were read as part
+of the executable.  Other times obscure errors are raised by a program inside
+the guest.  These issues are extremely hard to trace back to bugs in the block
+driver.
+
+Blkverify solves this problem by catching data corruption inside QEMU the first
+time bad data is read and reporting the disk sector that is corrupted.
+
+== How it works ==
+
+The blkverify protocol has two child block devices, the "test" device and the
+"raw" device.  Read/write operations are mirrored to both devices so their
+state should always be in sync.
+
+The "raw" device is a raw image, a flat file, that has identical starting
+contents to the "test" image.  The idea is that the "raw" device will handle
+read/write operations correctly and not corrupt data.  It can be used as a
+reference for comparison against the "test" device.
+
+After a mirrored read operation completes, blkverify will compare the data and
+raise an error if it is not identical.  This makes it possible to catch the
+first instance where corrupt data is read.
+
+== Example ==
+
+Imagine raw.img has 0xcd repeated throughout its first sector:
+
+    $ ./qemu-io -c 'read -v 0 512' raw.img
+    00000000:  cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd  ................
+    00000010:  cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd  ................
+    [...]
+    000001e0:  cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd  ................
+    000001f0:  cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd cd  ................
+    read 512/512 bytes at offset 0
+    512.000000 bytes, 1 ops; 0.0000 sec (97.656 MiB/sec and 200000.0000 ops/sec)
+
+And test.img is corrupt, its first sector is zeroed when it shouldn't be:
+
+    $ ./qemu-io -c 'read -v 0 512' test.img
+    00000000:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
+    00000010:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
+    [...]
+    000001e0:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
+    000001f0:  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
+    read 512/512 bytes at offset 0
+    512.000000 bytes, 1 ops; 0.0000 sec (81.380 MiB/sec and 166666.6667 ops/sec)
+
+This error is caught by blkverify:
+
+    $ ./qemu-io -c 'read 0 512' blkverify:a.img:b.img
+    blkverify: read sector_num=0 nb_sectors=4 contents mismatch in sector 0
+
+A more realistic scenario is verifying the installation of a guest OS:
+
+    $ ./qemu-img create raw.img 16G
+    $ ./qemu-img create -f qcow2 test.qcow2 16G
+    $ x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom debian.iso \
+                                        -drive file=blkverify:raw.img:test.qcow2
+
+If the installation is aborted when blkverify detects corruption, use qemu-io
+to explore the contents of the disk image at the sector in question.
