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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Robert Merrill <grievre@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NFS bug?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:41:44 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145551304.8136.5.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b3be17f30604200937l7cfaca8evcc17f6ecd72f643e@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 09:37 -0700, Robert Merrill wrote:
> we have an SMP login server we just recently switched to debian
> testing from FreeBSD and it's giving us a little trouble.
> 
> it mounts its /home on a seperate machine, which is still running BSD,
> over a NIC-to-NIC 1000BASE-T link.
> 
> We've found the following bug exists in 2.6.15 and .16: If a directory
> under /home is readable but not executable, a call to getdents64() on
> it will kill the process with an invalid operand error in
> __copy_from_user_ll

> has this been fixed already, and is there a patch which is readily applicable?

No idea. Can you supply us with a strace of the problem?

> we're not using the latest kernel, unfortunately, because it has lockd problems.

Care to elaborate?

Cheers,
  Trond


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-20 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-20 16:37 Robert Merrill
2006-04-20 16:41 ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
     [not found]   ` <b3be17f30604200953i652e14a2n908f1a066ffe4e7f@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <1145555789.8136.13.camel@lade.trondhjem.org>
2006-04-20 18:02       ` Robert Merrill
2006-04-20 18:10         ` Trond Myklebust
2006-04-20 18:14           ` Robert Merrill
2006-04-20 19:20             ` Trond Myklebust
2006-04-20 20:29               ` Robert Merrill
2006-04-21  7:55               ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-21 14:07                 ` Trond Myklebust
2006-04-21 16:43                   ` Joshua Hudson
2006-04-21 18:31                   ` Andrew Morton
2006-04-21 19:34                     ` Trond Myklebust
2006-04-23  7:29                       ` Robert Merrill

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