Re: NCPFS and brittle connections

From: Petr Vandrovec
Date: Thu Jan 04 2007 - 12:59:06 EST


Pierre Ossman wrote:
Hi Petr,

What is the status of this bug?

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3328

I do not see anything in the history of fs/ncpfs that seems to suggest that this, rather critical, issue has been resolved. Is anyone working on it?

Nobody is working on it (at least to my knowledge), and to me it is feature - it always worked this way, like smbfs did back in the past - if you send signal 9 to process using mount point, and there is some transaction in progress, nobody can correctly finish that transaction anymore. Fixing it would require non-trivial amount of code, and given that NCP itself is more or less dead protocol I do not feel that it is necessary.

If you want to fix it, feel free. Culprit is RQ_INPROGRESS handling in ncp_abort_request - it just aborts whole connection so it does not have to provide temporary buffers and special handling for reply - as buffers currently specified as reply buffers are owned by caller, so after aborting request you cannot use them anymore.
Petr Vandrovec

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