Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:53:34 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: NFSv3 support (bugs, some fixes, and more) |
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ben fleis wrote: > > Ultimately, however, it's probably a pragmatic/security issue if a rogue > > NFS server can confuse the Linux kernel into a less-than-stable state by > > reusing fileids with different handles. > > this would definitely be a problem --- imagine deleting a file and having > the inode number reused within the same NFS session. this is far from > impossible, and should be handled gracefully.
Data point: 2.2.10 returns "I/O error" when an NFS server returns two different handles with the same fileid. I don't know if there are any bad side effects, but the kernel is still running ok.
I found this by writing a buggy NFS server :)
-- Jamie
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