OpenAFS backup fails because of "illegal volume name" *.backup

[David Eck]

OpenAFS 1.6.7-1ubuntu1.1, Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS: After a recent security upgrade, OpenAFS backup
command fails with error "backup: Volume name is illegal ; Failed to evaluate volume set" for a volume
name "*.backup". The same error, for volume names using a regular expression, was introduced in
OpenAFS 1.6.13 security release (July 29, 2015) and was fixed in OpenAFS 1.6.14 (August 13, 2016).
Perhaps it was incorporated into the recent security upgrade?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Torbjörn Moa (moa-physto)]

I can confirm this. I see it too in OpenAFS 1.6.7-1ubuntu1.1, but it is not present in e.g. 1.6.7-1ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS which I happen to run on my other servers.

[Torbjörn Moa (moa-physto)]

As a quick fix, I downloaded the source package, reversed patch CVE-2015-6587.patch and rebuilt. This solves the problem for me, temporarily, but it would be nice to have this fixed properly in the packages, of course.