On 09/11/2014 11:27 AM, Ilya Dryomov wrote: >> I should have asked this before. Why is a permission error >> > leading to ceph_extract_encoded_string() finding a short >> > buffer? I didn't take the time to trace the error path >> > you're talking about here all the way back. > rbd_obj_method_sync() returns -EPERM, which when compared with size_t > from sizeof() ends up a big positive. ceph_extract_encoded_string() is > then called and the safe decode macro kicks in.. I somehow got lost along the way and thought rbd_obj_method_sync() was returning -ERANGE. The problem starts because rbd_obj_method_sync() returns an error other than -ENOENT, and that led me astray I think. Sorry for the confusion. -Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe ceph-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html