Re: nfsd restart failures without /proc/fs/nfsd filesystem mounted

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

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 02:25:10PM -0700, Anirban Sinha wrote:
> >As you can see, we have an extra u_ptr member in the union (which is
> the
> >same as in the kernel: include/linux/nfsd/syscall.h).
> >
> >For experiment, I removed this member, recompiled nfs-utils and wala!
> >The kernel now gets the correct value of the server thread #.
> >
> >I am a bit puzzled by this since u_umap member already has a char* and
> I
> >think adding a void* does not change the alignment of the union. 
> 
> 
> Indeed. Actually, by mistake, I was using the new 1.1.2 nfs-utils
> binaries and making changes in the old 1.1.0 nfs-utils source. The
> removal of the member does not change anything. What is happening is
> that an upgrade to the new 1.1.2 nfs-utils binaries solves the problem.
> I think you can reproduce the problem at your end simply by unmounting
> nfsd filesystem and using 1.1.0 nfs-utils binary.

OK!  Hm, do you know which patch actually fixed this?  (Is it actually
just the same problem you reported before?)  On a quick skim through the
git history I'm not seeing it.

--b.