[OpenAFS] 14 Jan 2021 08:25:36 GMT Breakage in RX Connection ID calculation

[Neil Brown]

On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, Jeffrey E Altman wrote:

> Patches to correct the flaw are available from OpenAFS Gerrit
>
>  https://gerrit.openafs.org/14491
>  rx: rx_InitHost do not overwrite RAND_bytes rx_nextCid
>
>  https://gerrit.openafs.org/14492
>  rx: update_nextCid overflow handling is broken

Jeffrey,

Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, are very grateful for you and 
AuriStor's quick response to this, as I'm sure are many other members of 
this list.

Also thanks, to the other members of this list with their efforts in 
diagnosing the root cause.

Hopefully we'll be able to try a patched version tomorrow.

Thanks again,

Neil
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