[LU-2241] symlink bug in 2.3.0 Created: 28/Oct/12  Updated: 30/Nov/12  Resolved: 06/Nov/12

Status: Resolved
Project: Lustre
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: Lustre 2.3.0
Fix Version/s: Lustre 2.4.0

Type: Bug Priority: Critical
Reporter: Wolfgang Baudler Assignee: Nathaniel Clark
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 0
Labels: None
Environment:

RHEL6.3


Issue Links:
Duplicate
is duplicated by LU-2405 Interop 2.3<->2.4 Failure on test sui... Resolved
Severity: 3
Epic: metadata, server
Rank (Obsolete): 5304

 Description   

Symlinks with a destination path that has the exact length of 61 characters don't work.

For example

$ ln -s 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
$ ls -al
ls: cannot read symbolic link 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890: Protocol error

Symlinks with shorter or longer paths work fine. I assume an off-by-one error, since 60 characters seems to be the limit for storing the symlink inside of an inode.

Lustre 2.2.0 did not have this problem.



 Comments   
Comment by Wolfgang Baudler [ 28/Oct/12 ]

Client logs this when such a symlink is accessed:

kernel: LustreError: 11096:0:(symlink.c:95:ll_readlink_internal()) inode 144115574354477068: symlink not NULL terminated stringof length 60

Comment by Nathaniel Clark [ 30/Oct/12 ]

Reproduced with MDS/MGS/OSS servers 2.3.54

The following client versions exhibited this issue:

  • 2.3.54
  • 1.8.8.60
Comment by Nathaniel Clark [ 31/Oct/12 ]

http://review.whamcloud.com/4415

Since this is a server only issue, The client code doesn't need to be patched, I believe this only affects master.

Comment by Keith Mannthey (Inactive) [ 31/Oct/12 ]

Thanks for adding a test to sanity.sh.

Comment by Nathaniel Clark [ 06/Nov/12 ]

Change has been successfully cherry-picked as 6c3606b79a4c25946255a680f79ff2d58df66bbc

Comment by Nathaniel Clark [ 29/Nov/12 ]

b2_1 version of this patch submitted to fix LU-2405
http://review.whamcloud.com/4711

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