On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 4:33 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 01:04:33PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: >> The NFSv4 client sends the server GETATTR requests with different sets of >> requested attributes depending on the situation. The requested set of >> attributes is encoded in a bitmap; the server replies with the set of >> attributes it could return. These bitmaps can be several words wide. The >> bitmap returned by the server is a subset of the bitmap sent by the client. >> >> While decoding the reply, the client tries to verify the reply bitmap: it >> checks if any previous, unexpected attributes are left in the same word of the >> bitmap for each attribute it tries to decode, then it clears the current >> attribute's bit in the bitmap for the next decode function. >> >> The client fails to detect when unexpected attributes are sent after the last >> expected attribute in each word in the bitmap. > > Is it important that the client catch that? Right. What is the actual problem or bug that this patch is trying to fix? Why do we care if a buggy server sends us extra info that we didn't ask for? Trond -- 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
