[PATCH 5/7] NFSD: report listener creation failures through extack
From: Jeff Layton
Date: Mon Aug 10 2026 - 13:44:26 EST
nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit() hands back the raw errno from
svc_xprt_create_from_sa() and sets no extack, so a failed LISTENER_SET
tells userland only "Connection refused". The usual cause is
svc_setup_socket() -> svc_register() failing because the local rpcbind is
not reachable, which is not guessable from the errno alone -- and since
"SUNRPC: keep the first error in svc_register()" that failure is fatal on
CONFIG_NFS_LOCALIO=y too.
Name the transport and the error. The message tracks err, which keeps the
last failure, so a multi-listener request reports the entry whose errno is
returned.
The rejections in nfsd_nl_validate_listeners() other than -E2BIG are still
bare; those are left alone here.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
---
fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index 66931caaaaed..a6ef85e6b419 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -2184,8 +2184,12 @@ int nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
ret = svc_xprt_create_from_sa(serv, xcl_name, net, sa, 0,
current_cred());
/* always save the latest error */
- if (ret < 0)
+ if (ret < 0) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT(info->extack,
+ "cannot create %s listener: %d",
+ xcl_name, ret);
err = ret;
+ }
}
if (!serv->sv_nrthreads && list_empty(&nn->nfsd_serv->sv_permsocks))
--
2.55.0