On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 03:22:00PM -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> The special 'ENOMEM' case that was previously flagged as non-fatal is
> bogus: auth_gss always returns EAGAIN for non-fatal errors, and may in fact
> return ENOMEM in the special case where xdr_buf_read_netobj runs out of
> preallocated buffer space (invariably a _fatal_ error, since there is no
> provision for preallocating larger buffers).
For a minute I was worried about the krb5p code that tries to do some
allocations that may fail, but you're right, it takes care to return
EAGAIN in that case (in alloc_enc_pages). Makes sense to me.
--b.
>
> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
> ---
>
> net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 4 ----
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> index 9503b4c..1af4f16 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> @@ -888,10 +888,6 @@ call_encode(struct rpc_task *task)
>
> task->tk_status = rpcauth_wrap_req(task, encode, req, p,
> task->tk_msg.rpc_argp);
> - if (task->tk_status == -ENOMEM) {
> - /* XXX: Is this sane? */
> - task->tk_status = -EAGAIN;
> - }
> }
>
> /*
>
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