Re: [PATCH] NFS: Fix a readdirplus bug

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Tue Nov 30 2010 - 17:13:37 EST


On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 14:10 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Trond Myklebust
> <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > When comparing filehandles in the helper nfs_same_file(), we should not be
> > using 'strncmp()': filehandles are not null terminated strings.
>
> Hmm. Applied, but sadly Nick Bowler <nbowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> reports
> that it doesn't actually fix his problem, so there is still a serious
> regression there.
>
> Linus

OK. I'll follow up that problem with him.

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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx
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