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

Jeffrey E Altman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.openafs.general
Organization AuriStor, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1/14/2021 10:55 AM, Jeffrey E Altman ([email protected]) wrote:
> This morning at 14 Jan 2021 08:25:36 GMT all restarted or newly started
> OpenAFS 1.8 clients and servers began to experience RX communication
> failures.  The RX Connection ID of all calls initiated by the peer are
> the same:
> 
>   0x80000002
> 
> 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

One more patch

  https://gerrit.openafs.org/14495
  rx: modify RX_CIDMASK to match update_nextCid()

> Jeffrey Altman
> AuriStor, Inc.
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