[OpenAFS] VL server preferences

Jeffrey Altman jaltman@your-file-system.com
Mon, 19 Sep 2011 10:39:09 -0400


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On 9/18/2011 6:32 AM, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
>=20
> On 18 Sep 2011, at 11:13, Frank Burkhardt wrote:
>=20
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I'm currently doing a testrun with Ubuntu Natty + openafs 1.6.0 (Russ
>> Allbery's Debian package version 1.6.0-1).
>>
>> When I do
>>
>> root@myhost> fs setserver -vl someserver 1000
>>
>> I get this message:
>>
>> This cache manager does not support VL server preferences.
>=20
> My suspicion is that this has been broken by 718f85a8, which added vali=
dation checks to the data passed from user to kernel space as part of pio=
ctls. If anyone wants to investigate, the bit of code to look at is the d=
eclaration for the SetSPrefs pioctl in src/afs/afs_pioctl.c
>=20
> S.

I haven't tested this fix but based upon reading the code I believe

   http://gerrit.openafs.org/5465

will take care of it.

Jeffrey Altman


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