linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix NFS option parsing bit-rot.

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Date:	Wed, 8 Jun 2016 20:35:21 +0000
From:	Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...marydata.com>
To:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
	"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix NFS option parsing bit-rot.

On 6/8/16, 15:41, "Rob Landley" <rob@...dley.net> wrote:
>So addr= is at _best_ redundant. You MUST supply host:/ always,
>the current code just wasn't using it.

That’s because you just happen to be supplying an IP address instead of a hostname. The kernel has no DNS resolving functionality. It cannot resolve hostnames into IP addresses without help either by the caller or by means of an upcall. That is why ‘addr=’ has been a mandatory parameter ever since we introduced the text based parser.

Now we could, theoretically, have the client call nfs_dns_resolve_name() on the hostname to resolve it. However that breaks when you have net namespaces and such, since the kernel’s dns_query() call is not container aware.

Trond