Re: [PATCH] NFS: Use the NFS_DEFAULT_VERSION for v2 and v3 mounts

[Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>]

On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 11:32:56AM -0400, bjschuma@netapp.com wrote:
> From: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
> 
> Older versions of nfs utils don't always pass a "vers=" mount option for
> NFS.  This chould lead to attempts at using NFS v0 due to a zeroed out
> nfs_parsed_mount_data struct.  I solve this by setting the default NFS
> version to NFS_DEFAULT_VERSION in the v2 and v3 cases (v4 has already been
> taken care of by a similar patch).
> 
> Reported-by: Joerg Roedel <joro@&bytes.org>

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> Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/super.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/super.c b/fs/nfs/super.c
> index ff656c0..97a3b30 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/super.c
> @@ -1867,6 +1867,7 @@ static int nfs23_validate_mount_data(void *options,
>  	if (data == NULL)
>  		goto out_no_data;
>  
> +	args->version = NFS_DEFAULT_VERSION;
>  	switch (data->version) {
>  	case 1:
>  		data->namlen = 0;

Hmm, I still think that the revert-patch is a better solution. The
data-structure is allocated and initialized in
nfs_alloc_parsed_mount_data() so this function is the logical place to
also initialize the version-field with a meaningful value.

Regards,

	Joerg