Hi Trond, I'm currently trying to track down the cause of some very odd behaviour in readdir in openSUSE 11.4 (2.6.37.3 based). I think it might be caused by xdr_copy_to_scratch not quite behaving correctly. In particular, when it has to copy into the scratch buffer it only copies 'nbytes' bytes - which sounds reasonable but isn't. It should copy XDR_QUADLEN(nbytes) words. In particular, nfs3_decode_dirent contains: p = xdr_inline_decode(xdr, entry->len + 8); if (unlikely(!p)) goto out_overflow; entry->name = (const char *) p; p += XDR_QUADLEN(entry->len); entry->prev_cookie = entry->cookie; p = xdr_decode_hyper(p, &entry->cookie); where the cookie needs all of those last few bytes which we would only get by rounding nbytes up to a multiple of 4. I haven't developed or tested a fix yet, but as it is clearly a bug, I thought I would let you know before I call it a night. Thanks, NeilBrown -- 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
