From: Wolfgang Walter commit 9db619e66503494e41159de3c76fafabe80d016b in mainline. we upgraded the kernel of a nfs-server from 2.6.17.11 to 2.6.22.6. Since then we get the message lockd: too many open TCP sockets, consider increasing the number of nfsd threads lockd: last TCP connect from ^\\236^\É^D These random characters in the second line are caused by a bug in svc_tcp_accept. (Note: there are two previous __svc_print_addr(sin, buf, sizeof(buf)) calls in this function, either of which would initialize buf correctly; but both are inside "if"'s and are not necessarily executed. This is less obvious in the second case, which is inside a dprintk(), which is a macro which expands to an if statement.) Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Walter Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/sunrpc/svcsock.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c @@ -1090,7 +1090,8 @@ svc_tcp_accept(struct svc_sock *svsk) serv->sv_name); printk(KERN_NOTICE "%s: last TCP connect from %s\n", - serv->sv_name, buf); + serv->sv_name, __svc_print_addr(sin, + buf, sizeof(buf))); } /* * Always select the oldest socket. It's not fair, -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/