https://jira.whamcloud.com This file is an XML representation of an issue en-us 9.4.14 940014 05-12-2023 https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-2241 Lustre <p>Symlinks with a destination path that has the exact length of 61 characters don't work.</p> <p>For example</p> <p>$ ln -s 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890<br/> $ ls -al<br/> ls: cannot read symbolic link 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890: Protocol error</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Lustre 2.2.0 did not have this problem.</p> RHEL6.3 LU-2241

symlink bug in 2.3.0

Bug Critical Resolved Fixed Nathaniel Clark Wolfgang Baudler Sun, 28 Oct 2012 09:50:07 +0000 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:25:12 +0000 Tue, 6 Nov 2012 11:57:29 +0000 Lustre 2.3.0 Lustre 2.4.0 0 5 <p>Client logs this when such a symlink is accessed:</p> <p>kernel: LustreError: 11096:0:(symlink.c:95:ll_readlink_internal()) inode 144115574354477068: symlink not NULL terminated stringof length 60</p> <p>Reproduced with MDS/MGS/OSS servers 2.3.54</p> <p>The following client versions exhibited this issue:</p> <ul> <li>2.3.54</li> <li>1.8.8.60</li> </ul> <p><a href="http://review.whamcloud.com/4415" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://review.whamcloud.com/4415</a> </p> <p>Since this is a server only issue, The client code doesn't need to be patched, I believe this only affects master.</p> <p>Thanks for adding a test to sanity.sh. </p> <p>Change has been successfully cherry-picked as 6c3606b79a4c25946255a680f79ff2d58df66bbc</p> <p>b2_1 version of this patch submitted to fix <a href="https://jira.whamcloud.com/browse/LU-2405" title="Interop 2.3&lt;-&gt;2.4 Failure on test suite sanity, test_17g: symlink not NULL terminated stringof length 60" class="issue-link" data-issue-key="LU-2405"><del>LU-2405</del></a><br/> <a href="http://review.whamcloud.com/4711" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">http://review.whamcloud.com/4711</a></p> Duplicate LU-2405 Development Epic metadata server Rank 1|hzvawv: Rank (Obsolete) 5304 Severity