linux-kernel - Re: [NFS] [BUG] 2.6.23-rc5 kernel BUG at fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c:945

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Date:	Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:03:48 +0200
From:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
To:	suzuki <suzuki@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com>,
	Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	bfields@...ldses.org, neilb@...e.de, nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ffilz@...ibm.com,
	Poornima <bnpoorni@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [NFS] [BUG] 2.6.23-rc5 kernel BUG at fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c:945

On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 13:41 +0530, suzuki wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have been trying to debug this issue from my side and could find the 
> following.
> 
> The pathconf() request gets a reply with :
> 
> pathinfo.max_namelen = (unsiged int) -1
> pathinfo.max_link    = 255
> 
> Is this really an expected answer from a server for a proper connection 
> ( for mount requests on an exported dir) ? Is there something that needs 
> to be fixed at server side ?

I assume that this is with my patch applied? Yes: as long as the kernel
sets NAME_MAX to 255, then the above is expected behaviour.

Trond

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