Some servers reject RPCB_GETADDR requests with a non-empty r_owner field. "RPC: Server can't decode arguments" An empty string is already used by libtirpc and the kernel for RPCB_GETADDR requests. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> --- support/nfs/getport.c | 6 +----- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/support/nfs/getport.c b/support/nfs/getport.c index cf1677e..926bab8 100644 --- a/support/nfs/getport.c +++ b/support/nfs/getport.c @@ -458,10 +458,6 @@ static int nfs_gp_ping(CLIENT *client, struct timeval timeout) /* * Initialize the rpcb argument for a GETADDR request. * - * The rpcbind daemon ignores the parms.r_owner field in GETADDR - * requests, but we plant an eye-catcher to help distinguish these - * requests in network traces. - * * Returns 1 if successful, and caller must free strings pointed * to by r_netid and r_addr; otherwise 0. */ @@ -489,7 +485,7 @@ static int nfs_gp_init_rpcb_parms(const struct sockaddr *sap, parms->r_vers = version; parms->r_netid = netid; parms->r_addr = addr; - parms->r_owner = "nfs-utils"; /* eye-catcher */ + parms->r_owner = ""; return 1; } -- 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
