Re: Regression in 5.1.20: Reading long directory fails

From: Benjamin Coddington
Date: Wed Sep 11 2019 - 13:50:25 EST


On 11 Sep 2019, at 13:40, Benjamin Coddington wrote:

On 11 Sep 2019, at 13:29, Chuck Lever wrote:

On Sep 11, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On 11 Sep 2019, at 12:39, Chuck Lever wrote:

On Sep 11, 2019, at 12:25 PM, Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Instead, I think we want to make sure the mic falls squarely into the tail
every time.

I'm not clear how you could do that. The length of the page data is not
known to the client before it parses the reply. Are you suggesting that
gss_unwrap should do it somehow?

Is it too niave to always put the mic at the end of the tail?

The size of the page content is variable.

The only way the MIC will fall into the tail is if the page content is
exactly the largest expected size. When the page content is smaller than
that, the receive logic will place part or all of the MIC in ->pages.

Ok, right. But what I meant is that xdr_buf_read_netobj() should be renamed
and repurposed to be "move the mic from wherever it is to the end of
xdr_buf's tail".

But now I see what you mean, and I also see that it is already trying to do
that.. and we don't want to overlap the copy..

So, really, we need the tail to be larger than twice the mic.. less 1. That
means the fix is probably just increasing rslack for krb5i.

.. or we can keep the tighter tail space, and if we detect the mic straddles
the page and tail, we can move the mic into the tail with 2 copies, first
move the bit in the tail back, then move the bit in the pages.

Which is preferred, less allocation, or in the rare case this occurs, doing
copy twice?

Ben