Re: NFS/credentials leak in 2.6.29-rc1

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

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 05:37:53PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 05:07:35PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields (bfields@fieldses.org) wrote:
> > I took a closer look at the tcpdump output.  Those numbers aren't port
> > numbers, they're rpc xid's: see "NFS Requests and Replies" in the
> > "OUTPUT FORMAT" section of the tcpdump man page.  Or compare the output
> > of tcpdump with wireshark's output.
> 
> Yup, they are definitely not network ports :)
> 
> > That still doesn't explain why you were seeing a mount hang--but some
> > network or other configuration problem may be the most likely
> > explanation.
> 
> I've rerun the tests with the latest git to date and I do not observe
> neither leak (with credential patch applied) nor mount fail, so please
> put the patch into the tree.

Thanks for the confirmation--but I jumped the gun and already submitted
them...

> Feel free to add my signed/acked/tested/whatevered if needed :)

... and forgot to credit you--sorry, I should have.  Thanks again for
catching the problem!

--b.