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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@poochiereds.net>2015-08-03 14:44:53 +0300
committerTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>2015-08-12 21:31:04 +0300
commit24a9a9610ce3ba36fd87c1d2f2c9106de6b7e832 (patch)
treeb2137eb31c216ad8a962b083c1108103bc380f59 /include/linux
parentc8ad8894e92b853df5a766061ee9cde7e10e682f (diff)
downloadlinux-24a9a9610ce3ba36fd87c1d2f2c9106de6b7e832.tar.xz
sunrpc: increase UNX_MAXNODENAME from 32 to __NEW_UTS_LEN bytes
The current limit of 32 bytes artificially limits the name string that we end up stuffing into NFSv4.x client ID blobs. If you have multiple hosts with long hostnames that only differ near the end, then this can cause NFSv4 client ID collisions. Linux nodenames are actually limited to __NEW_UTS_LEN bytes (64), so use that as the limit instead. Also, use XDR_QUADLEN to specify the slack length, just for clarity and in case someone in the future changes this to something not evenly divisible by 4. Reported-by: Michael Skralivetsky <michael.skralivetsky@primarydata.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h
index a7cbb570cc5c..1ecf13e148b8 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/auth.h
@@ -18,9 +18,13 @@
#include <linux/atomic.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/uidgid.h>
+#include <linux/utsname.h>
-/* size of the nodename buffer */
-#define UNX_MAXNODENAME 32
+/*
+ * Size of the nodename buffer. RFC1831 specifies a hard limit of 255 bytes,
+ * but Linux hostnames are actually limited to __NEW_UTS_LEN bytes.
+ */
+#define UNX_MAXNODENAME __NEW_UTS_LEN
struct rpcsec_gss_info;