From: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
To: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: matthew.ruffell@canonical.com,
linux-stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Regression] "SUNRPC: Add "@len" parameter to gss_unwrap()" breaks NFS Kerberos on upstream stable 5.4.y
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 23:08:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6E0D09F1-601B-432B-81EE-9858EC1AF1DE@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <424D9E36-C51B-46E8-9A07-D329821F2647@oracle.com>
> On Jul 15, 2020, at 23:02, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>> On Jul 15, 2020, at 10:48 AM, Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Multiple users reported NFS causes NULL pointer dereference [1] on Ubuntu, due to commit "SUNRPC: Add "@len" parameter to gss_unwrap()" and commit "SUNRPC: Fix GSS privacy computation of auth->au_ralign".
>>
>> The same issue happens on upstream stable 5.4.y branch.
>> The mainline kernel doesn't have this issue though.
>>
>> Should we revert them? Or is there any missing commits need to be backported to v5.4?
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1886277
>>
>> Kai-Heng
>
> 31c9590ae468 ("SUNRPC: Add "@len" parameter to gss_unwrap()") is a refactoring
> change. It shouldn't have introduced any behavior difference. But in theory,
> practice and theory should be the same...
>
> Check if 0a8e7b7d0846 ("SUNRPC: Revert 241b1f419f0e ("SUNRPC: Remove xdr_buf_trim()")")
> is also applied to 5.4.0-40-generic.
Yes, it's included. The commit is part of upstream stable 5.4.
>
> It would help to know if v5.5 stable is working for you. I haven't had any
> problems with it.
I'll ask users to test it out.
Thanks for you quick reply!
Kai-Heng
>
>
> --
> Chuck Lever
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-15 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-15 14:48 [Regression] "SUNRPC: Add "@len" parameter to gss_unwrap()" breaks NFS Kerberos on upstream stable 5.4.y Kai-Heng Feng
2020-07-15 15:02 ` Chuck Lever
2020-07-15 15:08 ` Kai-Heng Feng [this message]
2020-07-15 15:14 ` Chuck Lever
2020-07-15 18:54 ` Chuck Lever
2020-07-16 18:40 ` Pierre Sauter
2020-07-16 19:25 ` Chuck Lever
2020-07-17 17:29 ` Pierre Sauter
2020-07-17 17:34 ` Chuck Lever
2020-07-17 17:56 ` Kai-Heng Feng
2020-07-17 19:46 ` Pierre Sauter
2020-07-18 15:55 ` Chuck Lever
2020-07-20 21:22 ` Chuck Lever
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