Re: nfsd bugfixes

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 09:08:42AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday November 12, bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > The following two patches are nfsd bugfixes that I believe are
> > appropriate for 2.6.24 and 2.6.23.y.
> > 
> > --b.
> > 
> 
> Both
>   Reviewed-By: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

Thanks, Neil.

> Calling nfsd_setuser an extra time does open us up for a very tiny
> possibility of an ENOMEM at an awkward time.

Hm.  Could you give an example of possible consequences?

(Though note this is somewhat of a separate discussion, since this
particular patch doesn't add a call to nfsd_setuser().)

> We could remove that entirely for NFSEXP_ALLSQUASH by allocating an
> empty group_info at export time and just using a reference to that.
> It would be more awkward to pre-allocate for the NFSEXP_ROOTSQUASH
> case as the group_info has to be at least as big as the one in the RPC
> request, and would could need a different one of each concurrent
> request.... not sure if that is worth "fixing".

--b.
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