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SubjectRe: [NFS] Re: [PATCH] repair nfsd/sunrpc in 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 (and other -mm versions)
"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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