Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:31:50 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [NFS] Re: [PATCH] repair nfsd/sunrpc in 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 (and other -mm versions) |
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"Lever, Charles" <Charles.Lever@netapp.com> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steve Dickson [mailto:SteveD@redhat.com] > > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 10:02 AM > > To: linux-kernel > > Cc: NFS@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [NFS] Re: [PATCH] repair nfsd/sunrpc in > > 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 (and other -mm versions) > > > > Max Kellermann wrote: > > > Your -mm patches make the sunrpc client connect to the > > portmapper with > > > a non-privileged source port. This is due to a change in > > > net/sunrpc/pmap_clnt.c, which manually resets the xprt->resvport > > > field. My tiny patch removes this line. I have no idea > > why the line > > > was added in the first place, does somebody know better? > > Yes this is a bug, since most Linux portmapper will not > > allow ports to be set or unset using non-privilege ports. > > But non-privilege ports can be used to get ports information. > > So I would suggest the following patch that stops the > > use of privileges ports on only get port requests. > > this was my patch (idea was steve's). i've already sent a fix to > andrew. andrew please let me know if you haven't received it.
Ah, good. Please resend?
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