Re: cifs: ls of mount point gives input/output error (probably relatedto CIFS: getdents() broken for large dirs)

From: Konstantinos Skarlatos
Date: Fri Dec 30 2011 - 21:17:02 EST

On 30/12/2011 11:46 ÎÎ, Konstantinos Skarlatos wrote:
On 30/12/2011 8:00 ÎÎ, Konstantinos Skarlatos wrote:
On 30/12/2011 3:11 ÎÎ, Jeff Layton wrote:
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 11:04:59 +0200
Konstantinos Skarlatos<k.skarlatos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 29/12/2011 3:54 ÎÎ, Konstantinos Skarlatos wrote:
On ÎÎÎÏÏÎ, 29 ÎÎÎÎÎÎÏÎÎÏ 2011 3:39:30 ÎÎ, Jeff Layton wrote:
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:30:18 +0200
Konstantinos Skarlatos<k.skarlatos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 29/12/2011 4:04 ÏÎ, Jeff Layton wrote:
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 02:08:57 +0200
Konstantinos Skarlatos<k.skarlatos@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I mount via cifs a windows XP share, df gives me correct sizes,
but when
I ls the mount point i get input/output error.
strace: http://pastebin.com/WXf8M1nu

mount --verbose -t cifs -o
username=administrator,password=blahblah
//192.168.0.11/jobs /mnt/backups/montaz/jobs
mount.cifs kernel mount options:
ip=192.168.0.11,unc=\\192.168.0.11\jobs,,ver=1,user=administrator,pass=********



df
//192.168.0.11/jobs 114464
105196 9268 92% /mnt/backups/montaz/jobs

ls /mnt/backups/montaz/jobs/
ls: reading directory /mnt/backups/montaz/jobs/: Input/output
error
total 0

the fun thing is that i can cd to a lower level directory, and ls
works
fine there! only the mount point has the problem

ls /mnt/backups/montaz/jobs/test
total 44K
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Apr 30 2010 blah blah/
......

kernel version 3.2rc7

this seems to be related to :
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/1/427
Re: [3.0.0+][Regression][Bisected] CIFS: getdents() broken for
large dirs

Hmmm, maybe. What makes you think that it's related? What sort of
server are you seeing this against?
Windows XP service pack 2 (greek)

How many files are in the directory?

140 folders and 20 files

Attached is a tcp dump of my session.
I tried reproducing this here, but wasn't able to. Testing against my
xp box worked fine.

Most likely, the FIND_FILE responses are falling afoul of the code in
coalesce_t2 or check2ndT2. Unfortunately that code is pretty
complicated and I'm not certain what the problem actually is...

One thing that's interesting is that the total data being sent in the
request is rather large (16336 bytes). I think that's legit, but maybe
it's exceeding the end of the buffer once we try to coalesce it.

Would it be possible to get the cFYI output from this test?
I did not get a cFYI output from that test, but i redid a
mount-ls-umount and am attaching the tcpdump
Also here http://pastebin.com/J20uC6kU you can find the cifsFYI and
the contents of /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData form the same test

Is this a regression? Did it work with earlier kernels and only
recently start failing?

I do not know, and i am a bit afraid to downgrade this machine below
3.0 due to some changes arch linux has introduced recently. I can
always set up a few virtual machines though, and i can even request
permission from my company to give you shell access if you like. Which
kernel versions would you like me to test?
I just tested 3.1.5-1-ARCH on a virtual machine and it works, so it is
probably a regression... On the same virtual machine 3.2-rc7 produces
input/output error. The virtual machine is a fresh install of arch linux.
here is the relevant pastebin http://pastebin.com/BwX2DqJC
and attached is the tcpdump
As a am a noob to all this, what should I do next in order to help you?
maybe compile a 3.1 kernel from official sources to make sure no patches
from arch linux interfere?

After some testing, vanilla 3.1.6 does not have this bug and 3.2.0-rc1 has it.
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