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Commit 02ef04e4 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Anna Schumaker
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NFS: Account for XDR pad of buf->pages



Certain NFS results (eg. READLINK) might expect a data payload that
is not an exact multiple of 4 bytes. In this case, XDR encoding
is required to pad that payload so its length on the wire is a
multiple of 4 bytes. The constants that define the maximum size of
each NFS result do not appear to account for this extra word.

In each case where the data payload is to be received into pages:

- 1 word is added to the size of the receive buffer allocated by
  call_allocate

- rpc_inline_rcv_pages subtracts 1 word from @hdrsize so that the
  extra buffer space falls into the rcv_buf's tail iovec

- If buf->pagelen is word-aligned, an XDR pad is not needed and
  is thus removed from the tail

Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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