public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: suzuki <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
To: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	bfields@fieldses.org, neilb@suse.de, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ffilz@us.ibm.com,
	Poornima <bnpoorni@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [NFS] [BUG] 2.6.23-rc5 kernel BUG at fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c:945
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:26:10 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E61FEA.9010800@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1189458228.6634.4.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 13:41 +0530, suzuki wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> I have been trying to debug this issue from my side and could find the 
>> following.
>>
>> The pathconf() request gets a reply with :
>>
>> pathinfo.max_namelen = (unsiged int) -1
>> pathinfo.max_link    = 255
>>
>> Is this really an expected answer from a server for a proper connection 
>> ( for mount requests on an exported dir) ? Is there something that needs 
>> to be fixed at server side ?
> 
> I assume that this is with my patch applied? 

No. This is without your patch. So I am trying to debug why the server 
is sending a -1 ! (which sounds like an error ?)

Thanks

Suzuki K P
IBM Linux Technology Centre

Yes: as long as the kernel
> sets NAME_MAX to 255, then the above is expected behaviour.
> 
> Trond
> 


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-11  4:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-07 10:02 [BUG] 2.6.23-rc5 kernel BUG at fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c:945 Kamalesh Babulal
2007-09-07 15:29 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-10 18:02   ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-09-07 23:56 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-09-08 22:12   ` [NFS] " Trond Myklebust
2007-09-10  8:11     ` suzuki
2007-09-10 21:03       ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-11  4:56         ` suzuki [this message]
2007-09-10 13:06     ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-09-19 17:31       ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-24 19:01         ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-09-24 21:26           ` Trond Myklebust
2007-09-28 12:05             ` Kamalesh Babulal
2007-09-10 12:56   ` Kamalesh Babulal

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=46E61FEA.9010800@in.ibm.com \
    --to=suzuki@in.ibm.com \
    --cc=bfields@fieldses.org \
    --cc=bnpoorni@in.ibm.com \
    --cc=ffilz@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com \
    --cc=neilb@suse.de \
    --cc=nfs@lists.sourceforge.net \
    --cc=trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox