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From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust-HgOvQuBEEgTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Vitaliy Gusev <gusev.vitaliy-x4E8uuA0+mFBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
	Al Viro <viro-RmSDqhL/yNMiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org>,
	linux-fsdevel
	<linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfs4: Fix NULL dereference at d_alloc_and_lookup()
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:52:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1300830742.9442.53.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300830025-17152-1-git-send-email-gusev.vitaliy-x4E8uuA0+mFBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>

On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 00:40 +0300, Vitaliy Gusev wrote:
> From: Gusev Vitaliy <gusev.vitaliy-x4E8uuA0+mFBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
> 
> d_alloc_and_lookup() calls i_op->lookup method due to
> rootfh changes his fsid.
>
> During mount i_op of NFS root inode is set to
> nfs_mountpoint_inode_operations, if rpc_ops->getroot()
> and rpc_ops->getattr() return different fsid.

That is a server bug! Why are you trying to "fix" that on the client
instead of telling the user that their server deserves to be burned
behind the shed?

>  
> +	if (fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_FSID &&
> +	    !nfs_fsid_equal(&server->fsid, &fattr->fsid))
> +		memcpy(&server->fsid, &fattr->fsid, sizeof(server->fsid));

No. add a printk() to the effect that the server is insane, return -EIO
and we're done...

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust-HgOvQuBEEgTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
www.netapp.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-22 21:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-22 21:40 [PATCH] nfs4: Fix NULL dereference at d_alloc_and_lookup() Vitaliy Gusev
     [not found] ` <1300830025-17152-1-git-send-email-gusev.vitaliy-x4E8uuA0+mFBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-03-22 21:52   ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
     [not found]     ` <1300830742.9442.53.camel-SyLVLa/KEI9HwK5hSS5vWB2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-03-22 22:58       ` Vitaliy Gusev
2011-03-22 23:59         ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]           ` <1300838379.22796.35.camel-SyLVLa/KEI9HwK5hSS5vWB2eb7JE58TQ@public.gmane.org>
2011-03-23  9:27             ` Vitaliy Gusev

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