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SubjectRe: NFS bug?
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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

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