Re: [2.6.26-rc4] mount.nfsv4/memory poisoning issues...

[Chuck Lever]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Daniel J Blueman
<daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:10:27 +0100
>> "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > Hi Daniel-
>>> >
>>> > On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Daniel J Blueman
>>> > <daniel.blueman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> >> Having experienced 'mount.nfs4: internal error' when mounting nfsv4 in
>>> >> the past, I have a minimal test-case I sometimes run:
>>> >>
>>> >> $ while :; do mount -t nfs4 filer:/store /store; umount /store; done
>>> >>
>>> >> After ~100 iterations, I saw the 'mount.nfs4: internal error',
>>> >> followed by symptoms of memory corruption [1], a locking issue with
>>> >> the reporting [2] and another (related?) memory-corruption issue
>>> >> (off-by-1?) [3]. A little analysis shows memory being overwritten by
>>> >> (likely) a poison value, which gets complicated if it's not
>>> >> use-after-free...
>>> >>
>>> >> Anyone dare confirm this issue? NFSv4 server is x86-64 Ubuntu 8.04
>>> >> 2.6.24-18, client U8.04 2.6.26-rc4; batteries included [4].
>>> >
>>> > We have some other reports of late model kernels with memory
>>> > corruption issues during NFS mount.  The problem is that by the time
>>> > these canaries start singing, the evidence of what did the corrupting
>>> > is long gone.
>>> >
>>> >> I'm happy to decode addresses, test patches etc.
>>> >
>>> > If these crashes are more or less reliably reproduced, it would be
>>> > helpful if you could do a 'git bisect' on the client to figure out at
>>> > what point in the kernel revision history this problem was introduced.
>>> >
>>> > Have you seen the problem on client kernels earlier than 2.6.25?
>>>
>>> Firstly, I had omitted that I'd booted the kernel with
>>> debug_objects=1, which provides the canary here.
>>>
>>> The primary failure I see is 'mount.nfs4: internal error', and always
>>> after 358 umount/mount cycles (plus 1 initial mount) which gives us a
>>> clue; 'netstat' shows all these connections in a TIME_WAIT state, thus
>>> the bug relates to the inability to allocate a socket error path. I
>>> found that after the connection lifetime expired, you can mount again,
>>> which corroborates this theory.
>>>
>>> In this case, we saw the mount() syscall result in the mount.nfsv4
>>> process being SEGV'd when booted with 'debug_object=1', without this
>>> option, we see:
>>>
>>> # strace /sbin/mount.nfs4 x1:/ /store
>>> ...
>>> mount("x1:/", "/store", "nfs4", 0,
>>> "addr=192.168.0.250,clientaddr=19"...) = -1 EIO (Input/output error)
>>>
>>> So, it's impossible to tell when the corruption was introduced, as it
>>> has only become detectable recently.
>>>
>>> It's worth a look-over of the socket-allocation error path, if someone
>>> can check, and reproduces 100% with the 'debug_object=1' param,
>>> available since 2.6.26-rc1 and 359 mounts in quick succession.
>>>
>>
>> For some strange reason (probably something I'm doing wrong or maybe
>> something environmental), I've not been able to reproduce this panic on
>> a stock kernel. I did, however, apply the following fault injection
>> patch and was able to reproduce it on the second mount attempt. The 3
>> patch set that I posted last week definitely prevents the oops. If
>> you're able to confirm that it also fixes your panic it would be a
>> helpful data point.
>>
>> The fault injection patch I'm using is attached. It just simulates
>> nfs4_init_client() consistently returning an error.
>
> Thanks! I hope to get time for this tonight and will get back to you;
> I appreciate your help, Jeff.
>
> The config I used to reproduce it on the client is
> http://www.quora.org/config-debug and is relevant to (at least)
> 2.6.26-rc5. I was able to reproduce it by exporting a single NFSv4
> export on 2.6.25 (eg Ubuntu 8.04 server); client and server were
> x86-64.

For the record, I was able to reproduce with a dual core 2.6.26-rc4
x86 client (using SLUB, not SLAB) on Fedora 8 against a Solaris 2008.5
NFSv4 server.  When the client runs out of ports, the mount commands
start to fail with EIO.  Then after a few dozen of these, the mounting
process hangs.  Sometimes it will BUG because freed & poisoned memory
is passed to kthread_stop().  I haven't seen some of the other
subsequent issues that Daniel initially reported.

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