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

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Date:   Wed, 11 Sep 2019 13:27:17 -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 13:26, Benjamin Coddington wrote:

> 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?

Naive, even..?

Ben