Re: [NFS] Re: [PATCH] repair nfsd/sunrpc in 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 (and other -mm versions)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

"Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com> wrote:
>
> > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: Steve Dickson [mailto:SteveD@redhat.com] 
>  > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:02 AM
>  > To: linux-kernel
>  > Cc: NFS@lists.sourceforge.net
>  > Subject: [NFS] Re: [PATCH] repair nfsd/sunrpc in 
>  > 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 (and other -mm versions)
>  > 
>  > Max Kellermann wrote:
>  > > Your -mm patches make the sunrpc client connect to the 
>  > portmapper with
>  > > a non-privileged source port.  This is due to a change in
>  > > net/sunrpc/pmap_clnt.c, which manually resets the xprt->resvport
>  > > field.  My tiny patch removes this line.  I have no idea 
>  > why the line
>  > > was added in the first place, does somebody know better?
>  > Yes this is a bug, since most Linux portmapper will not
>  > allow ports to be set or unset using non-privilege ports.
>  > But non-privilege ports can be used to get ports information.
>  > So I would suggest the following patch that stops the
>  > use of privileges ports on only get port requests.
> 
>  this was my patch (idea was steve's).  i've already sent a fix to
>  andrew.  andrew please let me know if you haven't received it.

Ah, good.  Please resend?