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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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