Re: [PATCH] nfs4: start callback_ident at idr 1

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On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Benjamin Coddington
<bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 2015, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Benjamin Coddington
>> <bcodding@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > If clp->cl_cb_ident is zero, then nfs_cb_idr_remove_locked() skips removing
>> > it when the nfs_client is freed.  A decoding or server bug can then find
>> > and try to put that first nfs_client which would lead to a crash.
>>
>> Thanks for fixing!
>> Have you ever seen such a crash in the wild? IOW: is this something we
>> should consider for stable?
>
> Yes, there's a server that sometimes sends truncated cb_compounds, and this
> bug is hit if we continue decoding 0's past the end of received data since
> cb_ident ends up being 0.  Both fixes I sent today are trying to handle that
> particular behavior.
>

OK. I'll mark both for stable inclusion then.

Thanks!
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