Bug 206103

Summary:	problem with some cifs shares that contain dirs with long filenames
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	ket000, wtogami
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Description Thorsten Leemhuis 2006-09-12 05:07:50 UTC

Description of problem:
I can't enter/list some directorys on a cifs-share after updating to rawhide
some days ago. I retrieve following error message:

$ LC_ALL=C ls
ls: reading directory .: Invalid argument

Disabling selinux did not help. Happens with two different CIFS-Servers (all
samba, one on debian, one on FC4)

I looked closer and found out that the total lenght of the path or the
filesnames seem to be related. E.g. only those dirs with a one or more files
with really long filesnames don't get displayed. I was not able to hunt it down
to a specific lenght :-/

I tried booting 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 again (I had it still installed after updating
to rawhide) and accessing those dirs works fine there.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.17-1.2630.fc6

How reproducible:
Always, only tested on x86_64, don't have a i386 rawhide machine around to test.

Comment 1 ketan kothari 2006-09-14 13:33:43 UTC

I am also experiencing the same issue. When i am trying to access the windows
share C$ it will not list and give error message ls: reading directory .:
Invalid argument. However it displays some subdirectories correctly. However it
also fails to list other sub directories. So it may be related to long names. I
do have files with really long names. Is this a problem with cifs/samba or with
ls program which can not handle the filenames correctly. However if i mount the
same windows share in nautilus, it displays the directory correctly. So i am
assuming that problem is with how ls handles the long file name.

Comment 2 ketan kothari 2006-09-14 13:34:56 UTC

I am also experiencing the same issue. When i am trying to access the windows
share C$ it will not list and give error message ls: reading directory .:
Invalid argument. However it displays some subdirectories correctly. However it
also fails to list other sub directories. So it may be related to long names. I
do have files with really long names. Is this a problem with cifs/samba or with
ls program which can not handle the filenames correctly. However if i mount the
same windows share in nautilus, it displays the directory correctly. So i am
assuming that problem is with how ls handles the long file name. 

Version
Fedora Core 6 Test 3, fully patched. i386 rawhide

Comment 3 Thorsten Leemhuis 2006-09-14 16:54:27 UTC

Crap, hit the same problem on another machine in another network after updateing
that i386-system to rawhide; the server is running FC5

Comment 4 ketan kothari 2006-09-15 17:03:19 UTC

Any updates on this issue. I know Fedora Core 6 is in freeze. However i thought
that bugs will be fixed.

Comment 5 Thorsten Leemhuis 2006-10-20 05:07:54 UTC

Problem still present; now also seen on a third machine with FC5 after the
recent kernel-update to 2.6.18 was installed on it

Comment 6 Thorsten Leemhuis 2006-10-20 15:02:10 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211070 ***