Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 19:40 +0530, Suresh Jayaraman wrote: >> The recent posixacl fix(commit ae46141ff08f1965b17c531b571953c39ce8b9e2) >> seems to have introduced a bug that will lead to -EINVAL errors during >> normal setfacl operations on file or dir. This patch attempts to fix >> this. > > To start with, your len_in_head is in units of 32-bit _words_, whereas > len, base, and req->rq_slen are in units of bytes. > > Then, 'len' is initialised to the length of the currently encoded part > of the RPC header before subtracting 'len_in_head'. The resulting number Doh, I got it wrong totally. Thanks for the explaination. On a side note, I think it would be nice to add little comments in xdr code to explain non-obvious pieces. > > Please check if the following patch fixes things for you. Yes, the below patch fixes the issue for me too. Thanks, > Trond > ------------------------------------------------------------ >>From b273b42f8b793a4a446015b50a5c1473553af48b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:58:45 -0400 > Subject: [PATCH] NFS: Fix the XDR iovec calculation in nfs3_xdr_setaclargs > > Commit ae46141ff08f1965b17c531b571953c39ce8b9e2 (NFSv3: Fix posix ACL code) > introduces a bug in the calculation of the XDR header iovec. In the case > where we are inlining the acls, we need to adjust the length of the iovec > req->rq_svec, in addition to adjusting the total buffer length. > > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c | 3 ++- > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c b/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c > index e6a1932..35869a4 100644 > --- a/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c > +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c > @@ -713,7 +713,8 @@ nfs3_xdr_setaclargs(struct rpc_rqst *req, __be32 *p, > if (args->npages != 0) > xdr_encode_pages(buf, args->pages, 0, args->len); > else > - req->rq_slen += args->len; > + req->rq_slen = xdr_adjust_iovec(req->rq_svec, > + p + XDR_QUADLEN(args->len)); > > err = nfsacl_encode(buf, base, args->inode, > (args->mask & NFS_ACL) ? -- Suresh Jayaraman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html