Re: Problems mounting via UDP from a netapp with multiple interfaces

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On 04/14/2015 03:39 PM, Gregory Boyce wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 3:04 PM Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Trond Myklebust
>>> <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> No. You are not supposed to be able to work around security issues,
>>>> and it is indeed a security issue when a client gets a reply from an
>>>> IP address that it does not recognise as being the same as the one it
>>>> sent an RPC to.
>>>
>>> "Working around" security issues is a rather common and accepted
>>> practice when there are mitigating controls in place.  It's never a
>>> black and white world.
>>>
>>
>>
>> The attached patch was able to work around the issue for us until we can get
>> the filers working in a more expected manner.  I'm sending it along in case
>> anyone else can find a use for it, or if you want to apply it in order to
>> give people an option for cases like this.
> 
> Re-sending since Google Inbox likes to default to HTML e-mail.
> 
Could you please resend this patch using the proper Sign-off-by,
subject and description formats as describe in 
   https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/SubmittingPatches

steved.
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