Re: Regression in 5.1.20: Reading long directory fails

From: Benjamin Coddington
Date: Thu Sep 12 2019 - 09:08:56 EST



On 12 Sep 2019, at 8:53, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> Let's please just scrap this function and rewrite it as a generic
> function for reading the MIC. It clearly is not a generic function for
> reading arbitrary netobjs, and modifications like the above just make
> the misnomer painfully obvious.
>
> Let's rewrite it as xdr_buf_read_mic() so that we can simplify it where
> possible.

Ok. I want to assume the mic will not land in the head, but I am not sure..
Is there a scenario where the mic might land in the head, or is that bit of
the current function left over from other uses?

Ben