Re: [PATCH] SUNRPC: svc_register error overwritten in nextiteration

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:54:01PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
> 
> On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:13 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > The current code was failing iff the last registration returns an error.
> > We list the nfs program before the acl program in this list, so nfsd
> > registration was failing iff the acl program failed, which makes no
> > sense whatsoever.
> > 
> > I think "all or none" would be cleanest.
> > 
> > If people start complaining that they don't want to run rpcbind/portmap
> > then we could give them some way of requesting that instead of just
> > depending on allowing the registration to fail.
> 
> I thought vs_hidden was set for NFSACL... but maybe I was wrong about that.

Oh, I forgot about that.

But, checking....  Actually, it looks like it's not set for NFSACL--from
a quick grep, it appears that only the callback server sets it.

> > For cleanup, we can just unregister everything, right?  (No harm in
> > possibly unregistering something who's registration just failed?)
> 
> Yes.  As a simple hard-headed approach, probably you should walk the passed-in sv_program list again and unregister each item in the list.  The downside to this is if the upcall is taking a long time (for instance, if networking is not available).  It would double the amount of time for svc_register() to return a failure.
> 
> However, be prepared: I bet such a change could expose bugs in the NFSD start up stack.

There are so many to expose.

> :-(  Maybe it deserves some soak-time in linux-next.

Sure.

--b.
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