Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:13:59 -0400 | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> | Subject | Re: Regression in 5.1.20: Reading long directory fails |
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On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 09:08:51AM -0400, Benjamin Coddington wrote: > > On 12 Sep 2019, at 8:53, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > Let's please just scrap this function and rewrite it as a generic > > function for reading the MIC. It clearly is not a generic function for > > reading arbitrary netobjs, and modifications like the above just make > > the misnomer painfully obvious. > > > > Let's rewrite it as xdr_buf_read_mic() so that we can simplify it where > > possible. > > Ok. I want to assume the mic will not land in the head, but I am not sure.. > Is there a scenario where the mic might land in the head, or is that bit of > the current function left over from other uses?
Any reply that doesn't have page data?
A reply that ends up shorter than expected due to failure of an early op in the compound?
(Unless I'm missing something. I haven't looked at this code in a while. Though it was problem me that wrote it originally--apologies for that....)
--b.
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