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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 1995 17:01:57 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
To:        terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Another NFS server problem
Message-ID:  <199510030001.RAA22838@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <199510022351.QAA22795@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Oct 2, 95 04:51:58 pm

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> 
> Apparently, nfssrv_mkdir doesn't realize that a nfs_namei with nameiop
> of CREATE causes the underlying file system to imply a SAVENAME flag
> when the terminal compoenent is reached.  Therefore a failed mkdir
> will result in a MALLOC of cn_pnbuf in nfs_namei() that is never freed.
> 
> The failure mode is triggered for a mkdir of an existing dir by a client,
> leaving the path name buffer allocated on the server.

The same failure mode exists for nfsrv_link().

> I'm very glad I'm making these side effect semantics more explicit.

Now I'm very, very glad.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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