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Subjectnfs NLM locks greater than 8 bytes
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Has anyone looked at the NFS NLM byte lock size issue between the Linux kernel
based NFS server and BSD 5 clients? BSD 5 uses a large cookie for locking
(16 or even 20 bytes). Linux automatically rejects any lock attempts with a
cookie over 8 bytes. This issue has become important for us because of
Apple's release of OS X 10.3 (Panther), which is based on BSD 5.

Jonathan Lennox summed it up pretty well on the Freebsd bug list:

> Linux's implementation of NFS NLM locks is buggy: it doesn't support lock
> cookies longer than 8 bytes in size. See the comment in
> <http://lxr.linux.no/source/include/linux/lockd/xdr.h?v=2.6.0-test2> on the
> definition of 'struct nlm_cookie': "NLM cookies. Technically they can be 1K,
> Nobody uses over 8 bytes however."
>
> Unfortunately, this is actually "nobody" except FreeBSD 5.x, which uses
> 16-byte cookies. As a result, any attempt by a FreeBSD client to lock an
> NFS-mounted file from a Linux server results in the process on the FreeBSD
> client hanging, unkillably.

His full original post is:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-September/003069.html

I have checked out every recent version of the kernel on kernel.org (2.4 and
2.6) and haven't seen any modifications to xdr.h or xdr.c that might address
this issue. Nor have I been able to find any posts on Linux lists that
discuss the issue. There is a BSD patch to dumb down their client code and
make the cookie size smaller. The fear being that it will take a long time
to get a linux patch into the kernel. But if no one has even brought up the
issue here, it will certainly take forever. :-)

I can probably dust off enough of my old coding skills to up the check from 8
bytes to some higher number (16, 20, 1024 bytes?). But I certainly don't
know enough about the Linux kernel to know what ramifications that will have.

Thanks,

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Bill Akers
Director of Network Operations
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
akers@gseis.ucla.edu
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