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With some programs one file per directory is missing in directory listings
in NFS shares served by SGI Irix 6.5.9f - With Redhat 7.1 echo *  in a
tcshell is one of the programs affected by this bug - Trond Myklebust has
an experimental patch for this bug

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use an NFS server running with SGI Irix 6.5.x  - I tested with 6.5.9f
(NFS V3 udp
/proc/mounts shows
nfsserver:/mnt/links/projectspace/bi/TextMining /projects/bi/TextMining nfs
rw,nosuid,v3,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,hard,udp,lock,addr=nfsserver 0 0

2.run /home/helke/bin/ls -lR > ls-2.4  (ls is Suse 6.1 Glibc 2.0 binary -
(GNU fileutils) 3.16 - Redhat 7.1beta has ls Version (GNU fileutils) 4.0.36
)
3.compare with the equivalent listing of a computer with Redhat 6.2
	

An alternative way to demonstrate the problem:
tcsh
cd /projects/bi/TextMining/tmp
ls 
echo *


Actual Results:  In every directory one file is missing when using the 2.4
kernel

7.1beta /bin/ls and echo * in a bash shell show
sas-hotfixes srsdo.log
Suse 6.1 ls and 7.1beta echo * in a tsch shell show
srsdo.log

Expected Results:  I4d like to see all files that exist in each directory

Not all possible programs trigger this bug. The 7.1 ls shows all files,
with Suse 6.1 ls one filer per directory is missing, with echo * in a tcsh
shell one file per directory is missing 

This seems to be a known bug. Linux NFS developer Trond Myklebust has an
experimental patch for 2.4.2 I did not yet test this patch.

http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.2/

NFS client patches for Linux 2.4.2

A brief explanation of the patches in this directory 

linux-2.4.2-dir.dif: 

     An experimental patch for fixing a problem that is due to NFSv(2|3)
readdir returning (32|64) bit unsigned offsets.

     If you are seeing problems involving files that mysteriously disappear
from your directory listings, then please consider applying this patch.

     NOTE: this patch should no longer require any extra patching to glibc.
Here follows Trond  Myklebust patch for this probelem on the 2.4.2 kernel


http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/2.4.2/linux-2.4.2-dir.dif


diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.2-fh_align/fs/nfs/dir.c
linux-2.4.2-dir/fs/nfs/dir.c
--- linux-2.4.2-fh_align/fs/nfs/dir.c   Fri Feb  9 20:29:44 2001
+++ linux-2.4.2-dir/fs/nfs/dir.c        Thu Feb 22 12:34:41 2001
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #define NFS_PARANOIA 1
 /* #define NFS_DEBUG_VERBOSE 1 */
 
+static loff_t nfs_dir_llseek(struct file *, loff_t, int);
 static int nfs_readdir(struct file *, void *, filldir_t);
 static struct dentry *nfs_lookup(struct inode *, struct dentry *);
 static int nfs_create(struct inode *, struct dentry *, int);
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@
                      struct inode *, struct dentry *);
 
 struct file_operations nfs_dir_operations = {
+       llseek:         nfs_dir_llseek,
        read:           generic_read_dir,
        readdir:        nfs_readdir,
        open:           nfs_open,
@@ -67,6 +69,25 @@
        revalidate:     nfs_revalidate,
        setattr:        nfs_notify_change,
 };
+
+static loff_t nfs_dir_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
+{
+       switch (origin) {
+               case 1:
+                       if (offset == 0) {
+                               offset = file->f_pos;
+                               break;
+                       }
+               case 2:
+                       return -EINVAL;
+       }
+       if (offset != file->f_pos) {
+               file->f_pos = offset;
+               file->f_reada = 0;
+               file->f_version = ++event;
+       }
+       return (offset <= 0) ? 0 : offset;
+}
 
 typedef u32 * (*decode_dirent_t)(u32 *, struct nfs_entry *, int);
 typedef struct {
diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.2-fh_align/fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c
linux-2.4.2-dir/fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c
--- linux-2.4.2-fh_align/fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c       Fri Feb  9 20:29:44 2001
+++ linux-2.4.2-dir/fs/nfs/nfs2xdr.c    Thu Feb 22 10:47:49 2001
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
                bufsiz = bufsiz >> 2;
 
        p = xdr_encode_fhandle(p, args->fh);
-       *p++ = htonl(args->cookie);
+       *p++ = htonl(args->cookie & 0xFFFFFFFF);
        *p++ = htonl(bufsiz); /* see above */
        req->rq_slen = xdr_adjust_iovec(req->rq_svec, p);
 
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@
        entry->name       = (const char *) p;
        p                += XDR_QUADLEN(entry->len);
        entry->prev_cookie        = entry->cookie;
-       entry->cookie     = ntohl(*p++);
+       entry->cookie     = (s64)((off_t)ntohl(*p++));
        entry->eof        = !p[0] && p[1];
 
        return p;
diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.2-fh_align/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c
linux-2.4.2-dir/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c
--- linux-2.4.2-fh_align/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c       Fri Feb  9 20:29:44 2001
+++ linux-2.4.2-dir/fs/nfs/nfs3xdr.c    Thu Feb 22 10:47:49 2001
@@ -523,6 +523,13 @@
        return 0;
 }
 
+/* Hack to sign-extending 32-bit cookies */
+static inline
+u64 nfs_transform_cookie64(u64 cookie)
+{
+       return (cookie & 0x80000000) ? (cookie ^ 0xFFFFFFFF00000000) :
cookie;
+}
+
 /*
  * Encode arguments to readdir call
  */
@@ -533,7 +540,7 @@
        int             buflen, replen;
 
        p = xdr_encode_fhandle(p, args->fh);
-       p = xdr_encode_hyper(p, args->cookie);
+       p = xdr_encode_hyper(p, nfs_transform_cookie64(args->cookie));
        *p++ = args->verf[0];
        *p++ = args->verf[1];
        if (args->plus) {
@@ -635,6 +642,7 @@
 nfs3_decode_dirent(u32 *p, struct nfs_entry *entry, int plus)
 {
        struct nfs_entry old = *entry;
+       u64 cookie;
 
        if (!*p++) {
                if (!*p)
@@ -648,7 +656,8 @@
        entry->name = (const char *) p;
        p += XDR_QUADLEN(entry->len);
        entry->prev_cookie = entry->cookie;
-       p = xdr_decode_hyper(p, &entry->cookie);
+       p = xdr_decode_hyper(p, &cookie);
+       entry->cookie = nfs_transform_cookie64(cookie);
 
        if (plus) {
                p = xdr_decode_post_op_attr(p, &entry->fattr);
diff -u --recursive --new-file linux-2.4.2-fh_align/fs/readdir.c
linux-2.4.2-dir/fs/readdir.c
--- linux-2.4.2-fh_align/fs/readdir.c   Mon Dec 11 22:45:42 2000
+++ linux-2.4.2-dir/fs/readdir.c        Thu Feb 22 10:47:49 2001
@@ -315,7 +315,8 @@
        lastdirent = buf.previous;
        if (lastdirent) {
                struct linux_dirent64 d;
-               d.d_off = file->f_pos;
+               /* get the sign extension right */
+               d.d_off = (off_t)file->f_pos;
                copy_to_user(&lastdirent->d_off, &d.d_off,
sizeof(d.d_off));
                error = count - buf.count;
        }