This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFS: fix bug in legacy DNS resolver.
to the 3.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nfs-fix-bug-in-legacy-dns-resolver.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 8d96b10639fb402357b75b055b1e82a65ff95050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:16:01 +1100
Subject: NFS: fix bug in legacy DNS resolver.
From: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
commit 8d96b10639fb402357b75b055b1e82a65ff95050 upstream.
The DNS resolver's use of the sunrpc cache involves a 'ttl' number
(relative) rather that a timeout (absolute). This confused me when
I wrote
commit c5b29f885afe890f953f7f23424045cdad31d3e4
"sunrpc: use seconds since boot in expiry cache"
and I managed to break it. The effect is that any TTL is interpreted
as 0, and nothing useful gets into the cache.
This patch removes the use of get_expiry() - which really expects an
expiry time - and uses get_uint() instead, treating the int correctly
as a ttl.
This fixes a regression that has been present since 2.6.37, causing
certain NFS accesses in certain environments to incorrectly fail.
Reported-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Chuck Lever <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/nfs/dns_resolve.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/nfs/dns_resolve.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dns_resolve.c
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ static int nfs_dns_parse(struct cache_de
{
char buf1[NFS_DNS_HOSTNAME_MAXLEN+1];
struct nfs_dns_ent key, *item;
- unsigned long ttl;
+ unsigned int ttl;
ssize_t len;
int ret = -EINVAL;
@@ -240,7 +240,8 @@ static int nfs_dns_parse(struct cache_de
key.namelen = len;
memset(&key.h, 0, sizeof(key.h));
- ttl = get_expiry(&buf);
+ if (get_uint(&buf, &ttl) < 0)
+ goto out;
if (ttl == 0)
goto out;
key.h.expiry_time = ttl + seconds_since_boot();
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.6/nfs-fix-bug-in-legacy-dns-resolver.patch
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