[PATCH] nfsd: Fix overflow causing non-working mounts on 1 TB machines

[Paul Menzel]

Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2019 13:28:15 +0200

Since commit 10a68cdf10 (nfsd: fix performance-limiting session
calculation) (Linux 5.1-rc1 and 4.19.31), shares from NFS servers with
1 TB of memory cannot be mounted anymore. The mount just hangs on the
client.

The gist of commit 10a68cdf10 is the change below.

    -avail = clamp_t(int, avail, slotsize, avail/3);
    +avail = clamp_t(int, avail, slotsize, total_avail/3);

Here are the macros.

    #define min_t(type, x, y)       __careful_cmp((type)(x), (type)(y), <)
    #define clamp_t(type, val, lo, hi) min_t(type, max_t(type, val, lo), hi)

`total_avail` is 8,434,659,328 on the 1 TB machine. `clamp_t()` casts
the values to `int`, which for 32-bit integers can only hold values
â2,147,483,648 (â2^31) through 2,147,483,647 (2^31 â 1).

`avail` (in the function signature) is just 65536, so that no overflow
was happening. Before the commit the assignment would result in 21845,
and `num = 4`.

When using `total_avail`, it is causing the assignment to be
18446744072226137429 (printed as %lu), and `num` is then 4164608182.

My next guess is, that `nfsd_drc_mem_used` is then exceeded, and the
server thinks there is no memory available any more for this client.

Updating the arguments of `clamp_t()` and `min_t()` to `unsigned long`
fixes the issue.

Now, `avail = 65536` (before commit 10a68cdf10 `avail = 21845`), but
`num = 4` remains the same.

Fixes: 10a68cdf10 (nfsd: fix performance-limiting session calculation)
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

1.  No, idea if `min_t()` arguments also need updating.
2.  Instead of `unsigned long`, should `size_t` be used?

 fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
index 618e66078ee5..1a0cdeb3b875 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
@@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@ static u32 nfsd4_get_drc_mem(struct nfsd4_channel_attrs *ca)
 	 * Never use more than a third of the remaining memory,
 	 * unless it's the only way to give this client a slot:
 	 */
-	avail = clamp_t(int, avail, slotsize, total_avail/3);
+	avail = clamp_t(unsigned long, avail, slotsize, total_avail/3);
 	num = min_t(int, num, avail / slotsize);
 	nfsd_drc_mem_used += num * slotsize;
 	spin_unlock(&nfsd_drc_lock);
-- 
2.22.0

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