From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751089AbWDTQl4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:41:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751090AbWDTQlz (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:41:55 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.6]:47585 "EHLO pat.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751089AbWDTQly (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:41:54 -0400 Subject: Re: NFS bug? From: Trond Myklebust To: Robert Merrill Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:41:44 -0400 Message-Id: <1145551304.8136.5.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-3.928, required 12, autolearn=disabled, AWL 1.07, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL -5.00) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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