Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | From | Neil Brown <> | Date | Tue, 11 Sep 2001 20:01:14 +1000 (EST) | Subject | Re: nfs is stupid ("getfh failed") |
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On Tuesday September 11, lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk wrote: > > Yes, I'm doing the second of those. No alternative -- I need write > access from some hosts, and read access to all the rest (who are > dynamically allocated) on the subnet. > > It's clearly a bug in the NFS server then.
Actually, it's a bug in nfs-utils, that I have a patch for, but haven't got arround to commiting it to the CVS on sourceforge yet.
NeilBrown
Index: utils/mountd/auth.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/nfs/nfs-utils/utils/mountd/auth.c,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 auth.c --- utils/mountd/auth.c 2000/11/27 23:46:35 1.6 +++ utils/mountd/auth.c 2001/07/24 10:38:37 @@ -78,20 +78,10 @@ } auth_fixpath(path); - /* First try it w/o doing a hostname lookup... */ - *hpp = get_hostent((const char *)&addr, sizeof(addr), AF_INET); - exp = export_find(*hpp, path); - - if (!exp) { - /* Ok, that didn't fly. Try it with a reverse lookup. */ - free (*hpp); - *hpp = gethostbyaddr((const char *)&addr, sizeof(addr), - AF_INET); - if (!(*hpp)) { - *error = no_entry; - *hpp = get_hostent((const char *)&addr, sizeof(addr), AF_INET); - return NULL; - } else { + if (!(*hpp = gethostbyaddr((const char *)&addr, sizeof(addr), AF_INET))) + *hpp = get_hostent((const char *)&addr, sizeof(addr), + AF_INET); + else { /* must make sure the hostent is authorative. */ char **sp; struct hostent *forward = NULL; @@ -123,14 +113,12 @@ *error = no_forward_dns; return NULL; } - } + } - if (!(exp = export_find(*hpp, path))) { + if (!(exp = export_find(*hpp, path))) { *error = no_entry; return NULL; - } } - if (!exp->m_mayexport) { *error = not_exported; return NULL; - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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