[patch 59/73] knfsd: Allow NFSv2/3 WRITE calls to succeed whenkrb5i etc is used.

[Greg KH]

2.6.23-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

patch ba67a39efde8312e386c6f603054f8945433d91f in mainline.

When RPCSEC/GSS and krb5i is used, requests are padded, typically to a multiple
of 8 bytes.  This can make the request look slightly longer than it
really is.

As of

	f34b95689d2ce001c "The NFSv2/NFSv3 server does not handle zero
		length WRITE request correctly",

the xdr decode routines for NFSv2 and NFSv3 reject requests that aren't
the right length, so krb5i (for example) WRITE requests can get lost.

This patch relaxes the appropriate test and enhances the related comment.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Staubach <staubach@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

---
 fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c |    5 ++++-
 fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c  |    5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
@@ -396,8 +396,11 @@ nfs3svc_decode_writeargs(struct svc_rqst
 	 * Round the length of the data which was specified up to
 	 * the next multiple of XDR units and then compare that
 	 * against the length which was actually received.
+	 * Note that when RPCSEC/GSS (for example) is used, the
+	 * data buffer can be padded so dlen might be larger
+	 * than required.  It must never be smaller.
 	 */
-	if (dlen != XDR_QUADLEN(len)*4)
+	if (dlen < XDR_QUADLEN(len)*4)
 		return 0;
 
 	if (args->count > max_blocksize) {
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c
@@ -313,8 +313,11 @@ nfssvc_decode_writeargs(struct svc_rqst 
 	 * Round the length of the data which was specified up to
 	 * the next multiple of XDR units and then compare that
 	 * against the length which was actually received.
+	 * Note that when RPCSEC/GSS (for example) is used, the
+	 * data buffer can be padded so dlen might be larger
+	 * than required.  It must never be smaller.
 	 */
-	if (dlen != XDR_QUADLEN(len)*4)
+	if (dlen < XDR_QUADLEN(len)*4)
 		return 0;
 
 	rqstp->rq_vec[0].iov_base = (void*)p;

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