[OpenAFS] VL server preferences

Simon Wilkinson sxw@inf.ed.ac.uk
Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:32:24 +0100


On 18 Sep 2011, at 11:13, Frank Burkhardt wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
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> I'm currently doing a testrun with Ubuntu Natty + openafs 1.6.0 (Russ
> Allbery's Debian package version 1.6.0-1).
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> When I do
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> root@myhost> fs setserver -vl someserver 1000
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> I get this message:
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> This cache manager does not support VL server preferences.

My suspicion is that this has been broken by 718f85a8, which added =
validation checks to the data passed from user to kernel space as part =
of pioctls. If anyone wants to investigate, the bit of code to look at =
is the declaration for the SetSPrefs pioctl in src/afs/afs_pioctl.c

S.