[Bug 2065856] Re: SEGFAULTs in v4.3

[Nick O'Connor]

** Description changed:

  [ Impact ]
  
-  * Users experience SEGFAULTs when Ganesha fails to communicate with
+  * Users experience SEGFAULTs when Ganesha fails to communicate with
  Gluster, causing the NFS share to disappear.
  
-  * The patch refactors how free_space() is called to avoid the null
- pointer deference.
+  * The patch refactors how free_space() is called to avoid the null
+ pointer deference, but it doesn't seem to fix the issue on v4.3. I'm
+ unsure of how to fix this issue without upgrading this package to v5 or
+ later.
  
  [ Test Plan ]
  
-  * The triggers for the issue are difficult to replicate and have to do
- with the timing of Ganesha communicating with Gluster. I have compiled
- the patch against version 4.3-8ubuntu1 of nfs-ganesha and it resolved
- the issue on my system.
- 
- [ Where problems could occur ]
- 
-  * Possible memory leaks, however this change has been part of nfs-
- ganesha since v5. The latest version of nfs-ganesha is 5.7. I don't know
- of other related issues.
+  * The triggers for the issue are difficult to replicate and have to do
+ with the timing of Ganesha communicating with Gluster.
  
  [ Other Info ]
  
-  * Commit which added this patch: https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/commit/336abcba0b9e0dae0aadb4657c311d04862f2028
-  * Issue discussion: https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/issues/904
+  * Commit which added this patch: https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/commit/336abcba0b9e0dae0aadb4657c311d04862f2028
+  * Issue discussion: https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/issues/904

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Title:
  SEGFAULTs in v4.3

Status in nfs-ganesha package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

   * Users experience SEGFAULTs when Ganesha fails to communicate with
  Gluster, causing the NFS share to disappear.

   * The patch refactors how free_space() is called to avoid the null
  pointer deference, but it doesn't seem to fix the issue on v4.3. I'm
  unsure of how to fix this issue without upgrading this package to v5
  or later.

  [ Test Plan ]

   * The triggers for the issue are difficult to replicate and have to
  do with the timing of Ganesha communicating with Gluster.

  [ Other Info ]

   * Commit which added this patch: https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/commit/336abcba0b9e0dae0aadb4657c311d04862f2028
   * Issue discussion: https://github.com/nfs-ganesha/nfs-ganesha/issues/904

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