Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 01:49:51 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: current@freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Subject: Re: Another NFS server problem Message-ID: <199510031549.BAA22650@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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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. nfssrv_mkdir doesn't seem to be reached in that case. Bruce
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