Re: Hanging nfs4+krb5 mounts with negative uids?

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 08:38:16PM +0100, richard@vdtoorn.nl wrote:
> Hi Bruce,
> 
> Well done! Your answer to upgrade to a later version of the kernel fixed
> the problem. I tested this on kernel 3.7.3 and it works beautifully.

Thanks for confirming.--b.

> 
> Thanks very much!
> 
> Richard
> 
> >> This code gets hit, e.g. with the new debian stable release where
> >> nfs-kernel-server/nfs-common is upgraded to 1.2.6-3 (or upgrade
> >> nfs-kernel-server from debian stable to debian unstable). On my
> >> nfsv4+krb5
> >> system, this seems to do exactly the opposite of the patch: not fixing,
> >> but in fact introducing a hanging mount.
> >>
> >> When I change the code back from unsigned uid's to signed uid's the
> >> mount
> >> works again.
> >
> > Assuming you're running kernel 3.7--this shoulds like the problem fixed
> > by kernel commit 621eb19ce1ec.. "svcrpc: Revert "sunrpc/cache.h: replace
> > simple_strtoul"", which has also been backported to 3.7.3.  Could you
> > let us know whether applying that patch, or upgrading to 3.7.3, fixes
> > the problem?
> >
> > --b.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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