linux-kernel - Re: Regression in 5.1.20: Reading long directory fails

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Message-ID: <429B2B1F-FB55-46C5-8BC5-7644CE9A5894@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:26:21 -0400
From:   "Benjamin Coddington" <bcodding@...hat.com>
To:     "Chuck Lever" <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc:     "Jason L Tibbitts III" <tibbs@...h.uh.edu>,
        "Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        "Wolfgang Walter" <linux@...m.de>,
        "Linux NFS Mailing List" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        km@...all.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression in 5.1.20: Reading long directory fails


On 11 Sep 2019, at 12:39, Chuck Lever wrote:

>> On Sep 11, 2019, at 12:25 PM, Benjamin Coddington 
>> <bcodding@...hat.com> wrote:
>>

>> Instead, I think we want to make sure the mic falls squarely into the 
>> tail
>> every time.
>
> I'm not clear how you could do that. The length of the page data is 
> not
> known to the client before it parses the reply. Are you suggesting 
> that
> gss_unwrap should do it somehow?

Is it too niave to always put the mic at the end of the tail?

Ben