Hi Ben, No, I haven't got a chance to check if the bug exists in newer version. We changed our NFS server from Linux to OpenSolaris.
But it was a major problem. It re-occurred every time a user would attempt a filesystem operation where the filename was very long (e.g. 500 characters). Any fs write operation (rm, create new file) would cause the kernel panic. The crash happened several times a year. In all cases it was when someone would antecedently pass data instead of a filename to a peace of code that expects filenames. Alex On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 23:08 -0700, Aleksandr Levchuk wrote: >> Package: nfs-kernel-server >> Version: 1:1.0.10-6+etch.1 >> Severity: important >> >> My very stable server crashed as a result of a 'rm' command in an >> NFS-mounted home directory. The 'rm' command was a file name (with >> newlines) but that file did not exist. > [...] > > Sorry for the delay in replying to this. The nfs-kernel-server package > only contains supporting scripts, but the bug is clearly in the kernel > itself (linux-image-* packages). > > The system you reported this bug from was apparently running Linux > 2.6.22. I assume that is the same version in which you saw this bug. > Have you seen the bug reoccur in any more recent kernel version? > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse. > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aleksandr Levchuk Administrator of Bioinformatic Systems and Databases Homepage: http://biocluster.ucr.edu/~alevchuk/ Cell Phone: (951) 368-0004 Lab Phone: (951) 905-5232 Institute for Integrative Genome Biology University of California, Riverside --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/z2wa39d6f081004051613zb572914bu513cbf3e0e7a2...@mail.gmail.com
