Re: NFS EINVAL on open(... | O_TRUNC) on 2.6.23.9
From: Gianluca Alberici
Date: Wed Feb 06 2008 - 16:57:45 EST
Hi Chuck,
I finally got it. Problem and solution have been found from 6 month but
nobody cared...up to now those servers have not been mantained, this
problem is not discussed anywhere else than the following link.
The bug (userspace server side i would say at this point) is well
described from the author of an nfs-user-server patch which has not been
managed yet. The magic hint to find it on google was 'nfs server
utimensat' :-)
http://marc.info/?l=linux-nfs&m=118724649406144&w=2
I have already prepared a working patch for cfsd based upon the one ive
listed. The nfs patch is of course waiting for commit since august,
2007. Ill submit it to debian cfsd mantainers, hoping to have more
chance than my predecessor.
It doesnt seem to me that there was any kernel related issue.
Thanks a lot again, sorry for the lots of noise i have done. I will try
to be more appropriate next time.
Cheers,
Gianluca
Chuck Lever wrote:
Hi Gianluca-
On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Gianluca Alberici wrote:
Hello all,
Thanks to Chuck's help i finally decided to proceed to a git bisect
and found the bad patch. Is there anybody that has an idea why it
breaks userspace nfs servers as we have seen ? Sorry for emailing
directly Chuck Lever and Andrew Morton but i really wanted to thank
Chuck for his precious help and thought that /akpm/ having signed
this commit maybe he's going to figure out whats wrong easily
The commit you found is a plausible source of the trouble (based on
our current theory about the problem).
What isn't quite clear to me is whether this commit causes your user-
space server to start failing suddenly, or it causes the client to
start sending the special non-standard time stamps in the SETATTR
request. My guess is the latter, but I want to confirm this guess
against reality :-)
Are you running the client and server concurrently on the same system?
If so, it would be helpful if you could run this test with a constant
kernel version on one side while varying it on the other. If client
and server are already on different systems, can you tell us which
system and which kernel combinations caused the failure?
A matrix of combinations might be:
1. server kernel is before 1c710c89, client kernel is before 1c710c89
2. server kernel is before 1c710c89, client kernel is after 1c710c89
3. server kernel is after 1c710c89, client kernel is before 1c710c89
4. server kernel is after 1c710c89, client kernel is after 1c710c89
Thanks.
This is what i finally get from git:
1c710c896eb461895d3c399e15bb5f20b39c9073 is first bad commit
commit 1c710c896eb461895d3c399e15bb5f20b39c9073
Author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 8 00:33:25 2007 -0700
utimensat implementation
Implement utimensat(2) which is an extension to futimesat(2) in that it
a) supports nano-second resolution for the timestamps
b) allows to selectively ignore the atime/mtime value
c) allows to selectively use the current time for either atime or mtime
d) supports changing the atime/mtime of a symlink itself along the lines
of the BSD lutimes(3) functions
[...]
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: add missing i386 syscall table entry]
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
:040000 040000 3bedbc7fd919ba167b8e5f208a630261570853bb
927002a9423dcb51ba4f7bee53e60cdca6c1df43 M arch
:040000 040000 fd688c5b534efd3111cbf1e1095d6ff631738325
3d0fbf20fb3da1cb380c92f5b2b39815897376d3 M fs
:040000 040000 bfb1a907a9a842db4fa3543e12a8381d4e11b1eb
9c1d99324db12e066c0d17870fe48457809ad43b M include
Thanks in advance, regards,
Gianluca
Hi Gianluca-
On Jan 30, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Gianluca Alberici wrote:
Hello again everybody
Here follows the testbench:
- I got two mirrors, same machine, same disk etc...chaged hostname,
IP, and on the second i have recompiled kernel.
- First: 2.6.21.7 on debian sarge
- Second: 2.6.22 same system.
- Onto both i got nfs-user-server and cfsd last versions
- The export file is the same (localhost /opt/nfs (rw, async),
stripping off the async option does not changes anything)
- Mount options are exactly the same.
The problem arises in the very same manner with both nfs and cfsd:
NFS:setattr {
...
...
RPC:call_decode {
return 22;
}
...
return 22;
}
Again, there is nothing wrong with the RPC client or call_decode.
The *server* is returning NFSERR_INVAL (22) to a SETATTR request;
the RPC client is simply passing that along to the NFS client, as it
is designed to do.
I have tried these kernels:
2.6.16.11 works
2.6.20 works
2.6.21 works
2.6.21.7 works
2.6.22 doesnt work (contiguous to previous version)
2.6.23 doesnt work (same behavior as previous)
2.6.23.9 doesnt work (as above)
2.6.24rc7 doesnt work (as above)
I would really like to do more, client or server side, if you ave
any suggestions.
Can we find out what is the change (doesnt matter if it is a buf or
bug fix) that caused this problem ?
The goal here is to identify the kernel change between 2.6.21 and
2.6.22 that makes the client generate SETATTR requests the user-
space server chokes on. It may be a change in the NFS client, or it
could be somewhere else in the file system stack, like the VFS.
The usual procedure is to use "git bisect". It does a binary search
on the kernel patches between the working kernel version and the
kernel version that is known not to work. It works like this:
1. You clone a linux kernel git repository (if you don't have a git
repository already)
2. You tell git bisect which kernel version is working, and which
isn't.
git bisect then selects a commit about half way in between the working
and non-working versions, and checks out that version of the kernel
3. You build that kernel, and run your test case
4. You tell git bisect whether the resulting kernel passes your test
case,
it selects a new commit, and checks out that version of the kernel.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until git bisect has identified the commit that
causes the kernel to stop passing your test case
If the number of patches between 2.6.21 and 2.6.22 is N, then git
bisect will find the faulty patch in O(log2(N)) steps. For example,
if there are 250 patches between 2.6.21 and 2.6.22, it will take
about 8 iterations of steps 3 and 4 to find the faulty patch, if all
goes well; far fewer than the total number of patches you would need
to test one at a time.
Naturally you can also do this by applying and reverting patches
with "patch -p1", but it's a little more work.
Chuck Lever wrote:
On Jan 29, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 20:50 +0100, Gianluca Alberici wrote:
Hello,
I confirm that i have encountered this same problem (EINVAL on open
(...O | TRUNC) with the following userspace servers:
- nfs-user-server shipped with debian sarge/etch etc...
- cfsd (crypto file system which is an nfs server)
I want to underline again that these userspace servers have been
woking
perfectly until 2.6.21.7 (which is the last 2.6.21)
Since 2.6.22 the problem came out and it is still present into
2.6.24
rc7 (last i tested). Conclusion: there must have been something
that is
changed in 2.6.22 that caused the problem.
The only difference between these two dumps are the fact that the
first
one isn't using the Sun convention for telling NFSv2 servers to
set to
the current time (see the code in xdr_encode_current_server_time).
I thought I saw that on both SETATTRs, but I could be wrong.
I don't see why this would be new behaviour after 2.6.21. The
code for
this has been in the NFS client since 2.6.15 at least...
A mount option is set on one test client, and not the other, perhaps?
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