Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix /proc/sys/fs/nfs/nsm_use_hostnames on big endian machines

Jia He
2021-08-04T02:13:17Z

On 2021/8/3 18:59, Thomas Huth wrote:
> There is an endianess problem with /proc/sys/fs/nfs/nsm_use_hostnames
> (which can e.g. be seen on an s390x host) :
>
> # modprobe lockd nsm_use_hostnames=1
> # cat /proc/sys/fs/nfs/nsm_use_hostnames
> 16777216
>
> The nsm_use_hostnames variable is declared as "bool" which is required
> for the correct type for the module parameter. However, this does not
> work correctly with the entry in the /proc filesystem since this
> currently requires "int".
>
> Jia He already provided patches for this problem a couple of years ago,
> but apparently they felt through the cracks and never got merged. So
> here's a rebased version to finally fix this issue.
>
> Buglink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1764075
>
> Jia He (2):
> sysctl: introduce new proc handler proc_dobool
> lockd: change the proc_handler for nsm_use_hostnames

Thanks for picking them up ;-)

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Cheers,
Justin (Jia He)