2015-05-28 23:55 GMT+02:00 Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >> We already do this kind of check with the existing code. What's wrong with it? > > Actually, you're right, we don't check for the previous word, however > fixing that is a question of adding 2 extra checks in > decode_getfattr_attrs(), one in decode_getfattr_statfs(), and one in > decode_fsinfo(). > > It shouldn't require a rewrite of the entire nfs4xdr.c. I would actually prefer either verifying the reply bitmap against the request bitmap, or checking the bitmap first as this patch does --- the current approach of knocking individual bits over and checking if any "before" bits have been missed isn't exactly what I would take as a textbook example. Thanks, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html