Re: [NLM] 2.6.27.14 breakage when grace period expires

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On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 14:35 -0500, Chuck Lever wrote:
> I wasn't sure exactly where the compared addresses came from.  I had  
> assumed that they all came through the listener, so we wouldn't need  
> this kind of translation.  It shouldn't be difficult to map addresses  
> passed in via nlmclnt_init() to AF_INET6.
> 
> But this is the kind of thing that makes "falling back" to an AF_INET  
> listener a little challenging.  We will have to record what flavor the  
> listener is and do a translation depending on what listener family was  
> actually created.

Why? Should we care whether we're receiving IPv4 addresses or IPv6
v4-mapped addresses? They're the same thing...

We're already doing the mapping for the NFSv4 callback channel. See
nfs_sockaddr_match_ipaddr() in fs/nfs/client.c

Trond

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