Re: 14 Jan 2021 08:25:36 GMT Breakage in RX Connection ID calculation

Dear Jeffrey,

many thanks for your fast response from Germany too!

When issuing "vos listvol <server>" on a patched 1.8.6 client to an 1.6.22.1 <server>, I still get "Could not get the list of partitions from the server. Possible communication failure". The same command works from a client running 1.6.23.

I'm still having problems when doing an ssh from a patched 1.8.6 client to a server running an unpatched 1.8.6 and vice versa. The login process hangs during aklog. That means both machines have to run a patched 1.8.6?

Thanks and cheers,

Ado

Neil Brown wrote on 14.01.21 18:19:
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, Jeffrey E Altman wrote:
> 
>> Patches to correct the flaw are available from OpenAFS Gerrit
>>
>>  https://gerrit.openafs.org/14491
>>  rx: rx_InitHost do not overwrite RAND_bytes rx_nextCid
>>
>>  https://gerrit.openafs.org/14492
>>  rx: update_nextCid overflow handling is broken
> 
> Jeffrey,
> 
> Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, are very grateful for you and AuriStor's quick response to this, as I'm sure are many other members of this list.
> 
> Also thanks, to the other members of this list with their efforts in diagnosing the root cause.
> 
> Hopefully we'll be able to try a patched version tomorrow.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Neil