Hi Praveen and others,

I have an idea marked with [Long] below.

Best regards,
Long Nguyen.

On 8/3/2016 1:45 PM, praveen malviya wrote:
>
>
> On 02-Aug-16 3:39 AM, minh chau wrote:
>> Hi Praveen,
>>
>> One comment with [Minh] in line.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Minh
>>
>> On 01/08/16 17:22, Gary Lee wrote:
>>> Hi Praveen
>>>
>>> On 1/08/2016 4:29 PM, praveen malviya wrote:
>>>> Hi Gary, Long,
>>>>
>>>> Some comments/observations:
>>>> -In AMFD saAisNameBorrow() is used in logging and AMFND uses
>>>> osaf_extended_name_borrow().
>>>> For osaf_extended_name_borrow() note in osaf_extended_name.h says it
>>>> is intended for mainly agent libraries. But middle-ware services
>>>> always use core libs. At the same time saAisNameBorrow(), I think, is
>>>> for application.
>>>> any reason of using them this way and what is the recommended way?
>>> I think I used both styles in amfd. I think we can change saAisNameXX
>>> to osaf_extended_name_XX just before pushing, to make it consistent
>>> with the rest of the OpenSAF services.
>>>> -I think, one case may arrive from upgrade perspective.
>>>> Suppose any application (say amf_demo app) is running without
>>>> enabling long dn and a csi, with its RDn greater than 256, is added
>>>> dynamically (long dn enabled in IMM). In this case AMFD will assign
>>>> this csi to the running component. Component will not be able to read
>>>> the CSI and may crash.
>>>> This is related to invocation of CSI_SET callback but same will be
>>>> valid for PG tracking also. There may be other cases also.
>>>> Even truncation will not work in this case.
>> [Minh] I think the agent patch that Gary submitted currently returns
>> SA_AIS_ERR_NAME_TOO_LONG in saAmfDispatch() if long DN callback comes to
>> legacy application (unadapted long DN app). The real callback won't be
>> issued but application may crash if it exit() on non-SA_AIS_OK from
>> Dispatch(). I guess you have seen this with #1553? Do you think it's
>> good way if amf agent drops the long DN callback and also Dispatch()
>> returns OK to legacy app, and print error in syslog?
> Not observed in the context of #1553, but I remember about such a fix 
> in NTF long dn changes.
> Returning SA_AIS_OK in Dispatch() call saves application from crash, 
> but the problem in AMF is still different as it will maintain a 
> COMPCSI relationship without comp being actually assigned for that.
>
> Can we think of a way where AMF will not allow this conf change by 
> rejecting the CCB operation itself. For this AMF should know that this 
> application supports Long dn or not. But this information needs to be 
> carried from agent to AMFD.
> Before going for such a way, I think, we can ask opinion from other 
> AMF maintainers.
> [Long] You have the good solution. However, it is hard to know if an 
> application supports long DN or not at the time of CCB operration. Can 
> we make your suggestion as an enhancement later?
>
> Thanks,
> Praveen
>
>
>
>>>> - While running some tests observed crashes in amfnd and amfd.
>>>>     I will update #1642 with bt information.
>>> Minh will answer this bit.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Gary
>>>
>>
>


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