Re: [NFS] Re: [PATCH] repair nfsd/sunrpc in 2.6.14-rc2-mm1 (and other -mm versions)

[Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>]

Lever, Charles wrote:

> > Actually, Chuck's patch and Steve's aren't quite the same.  
> > Both patches
> > fix the problem that the portmap daemon requires a request to 
> > set something
> > to come from a reserved port.  In addition to this, Steve's 
> > patch reduces
> > the number of reserved ports that the kernel requires.  This 
> > is the problem
> > that resulted in pmap_create() being incorrectly modified in 
> > the first 
> > place.
> > Steve's patch correctly puts the support in rpc_getport() 
> > where it belongs.
> >    
>
> mine does too.  pmap_create() is used for both GET and SET, and i added
> a parm to allow pmap_create()'s caller to request a reserved port when
> needed.

Hmmm.  That's not the patch that Andrew Morton included in his email to
linux-kernel then.  That patch just removed the line to set xprt->resvport
to 0.  That one fixed problem but not the other.

   Thanx...

      ps
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