linux-kernel - Re: Odd log message associated with NFS

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Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:05:36 +0000
From:	Thorsten Kranzkowski <dl8bcu@...bcu.de>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Phy Prabab <phyprabab@...il.com>, nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Odd log message associated with NFS

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 12:59:25PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:39:10PM +0000, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote:
> > Mar 16 16:57:06 Marvin kernel: svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request
> > Mar 16 17:58:19 Marvin kernel: svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request
> > Mar 16 19:55:49 Marvin kernel: svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request
> 
> So that's 2^28, in a field that should always be zero.  It's the very

ahh. indeed. I didn't do the math, yet :)

> first check of any data read from the rpc call, so it'd be consistent
> with the call data being garbage, for one reason or another.
> 
> What would cause that to happen, I don't know.  Do you have a reliable
> way to reproduce it?

just sit and wait :-) 
I'll let a tcpdump run this evening and see if I can correlate the message
with anything. 

If you have a printk or other patch for me to try, just let me know.
 
bye,
Thorsten

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