NFS readdir change break fully cached nfs root
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About
- Kernel version: 2.6.37-rc1
- Bug 23552
- Reported by: Rafael J. Wysocki (November 22, 2010)
- Closed by: Trond Myklebust (November 22, 2010)
Symptoms
- nfsroot systems don't boot
- infinite readdir loops
- ls occasionally returns empty when directory is not empty
Resolution
- This problem was fixed by commit 8cd51a0ccd1beda4482507769887c0be9d70f8c1
commit 8cd51a0ccd1beda4482507769887c0be9d70f8c1 Author: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> Date: Mon Nov 15 20:26:22 2010 -0500 NFS: Fix a couple of regressions in readdir. Fix up the issue that array->eof_index needs to be able to be set even if array->size == 0. Ensure that we catch all important memory allocation error conditions and/or kmap() failures. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>