Re: v3.5 nfsd4 regression; utime sometimes takes 40+ seconds toreturn

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Fri Aug 17 2012 - 09:08:42 EST


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 09:34:24PM +0000, Jamie Heilman wrote:
> J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:42:08PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > Hm, weird. In the good case the cb_recall's done with auth_unix, in the
> > > bad case with auth_null. OK, that should be enough to go on....
> > >
> > > Thanks for digging into this!
> >
> > This should fix it--could you confirm?
>
> Yep, looks like that fixes it.

Thanks!

I'll queue this up for 3.6 and stable.

--b.

>
> > commit e950bebdac1f17121f972728489cdba43734d56d
> > Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu Aug 16 17:01:21 2012 -0400
> >
> > nfsd4: fix security flavor of NFSv4.0 callback
> >
> > Commit d5497fc693a446ce9100fcf4117c3f795ddfd0d2 "nfsd4: move rq_flavor
> > into svc_cred" forgot to remove cl_flavor from the client, leaving two
> > places (cl_flavor and cl_cred.cr_flavor) for the flavor to be stored.
> > After that patch, the latter was the one that was updated, but the
> > former was the one that the callback used.
> >
> > Symptoms were a long delay on utime(). This is because the utime()
> > generated a setattr which recalled a delegation, but the cb_recall was
> > ignored by the client because it had the wrong security flavor.
> >
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Reported-by: Jamie Heilman <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> > index cbaf4f8..4c7bd35 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> > @@ -651,12 +651,12 @@ static int setup_callback_client(struct nfs4_client *clp, struct nfs4_cb_conn *c
> >
> > if (clp->cl_minorversion == 0) {
> > if (!clp->cl_cred.cr_principal &&
> > - (clp->cl_flavor >= RPC_AUTH_GSS_KRB5))
> > + (clp->cl_cred.cr_flavor >= RPC_AUTH_GSS_KRB5))
> > return -EINVAL;
> > args.client_name = clp->cl_cred.cr_principal;
> > args.prognumber = conn->cb_prog,
> > args.protocol = XPRT_TRANSPORT_TCP;
> > - args.authflavor = clp->cl_flavor;
> > + args.authflavor = clp->cl_cred.cr_flavor;
> > clp->cl_cb_ident = conn->cb_ident;
> > } else {
> > if (!conn->cb_xprt)
> > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/state.h b/fs/nfsd/state.h
> > index 167d7d8..9db0bb5 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfsd/state.h
> > +++ b/fs/nfsd/state.h
> > @@ -231,7 +231,6 @@ struct nfs4_client {
> > nfs4_verifier cl_verifier; /* generated by client */
> > time_t cl_time; /* time of last lease renewal */
> > struct sockaddr_storage cl_addr; /* client ipaddress */
> > - u32 cl_flavor; /* setclientid pseudoflavor */
> > struct svc_cred cl_cred; /* setclientid principal */
> > clientid_t cl_clientid; /* generated by server */
> > nfs4_verifier cl_confirm; /* generated by server */
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