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Date:      Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:07:41 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, "Alan L. Cox" <alc@imimic.com>, FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Need review of NFS patch set for server .. missing/wrong vput() issues
Message-ID:  <20020116110741.C26067@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <200201161850.g0GIowg68383@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 10:50:58AM -0800
References:  <200201130239.aa98693@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> <200201161850.g0GIowg68383@apollo.backplane.com>

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* Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> [020116 10:51] wrote:
> 
> :
> :In message <200201130201.g0D21Xh49451@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon wri
> :tes:
> :>    Ok, cool.  I'll get the commit gears started for the 
> :>    first part of the patch.
> :
> :FYI, I was able to reproduce this and confirm that the first part
> :of your patch fixes it. All that it takes is for the mknod to fail
> :because the name already exists, but normally this is masked by the
> :client because it does an NFSPROC_ACCESS RPC first.
> :
> :Another nasty bug in nfsrv_mknod that I just spotted is that it
> :doesn't override the S_IFMT bits of the file mode supplied by the
> :client. It should be completely ignoring those bits, and using only
> :the node-type it has in the `vtyp' variable. I just managed to
> :create a node that makes ls say "Bad file descriptor" by passing
> :in a type of NFFIFO and a mode of 0...
> :
> :Ian
> 
>     Alexey hasn't had any crashes since applying this part of the NFS mknod
>     patch.  I assume it is a go, but the RE's have yet to respond to my MFC
>     request.
> 
>     Two real questions are whether the recent NFS fixes by Ian and the
>     recent softupdates fixes by Kirk should be MFC'd (in addition to my
>     NFS fix).  I think Ian's mknod tests are a no-brainer.  They should
>     just go in, as should my mknod fix.

I agree, I'd really like to see this fixes in.

-Alfred

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