Re: v3.5 nfsd4 regression; utime sometimes takes 40+ seconds toreturn

From: Jamie Heilman
Date: Thu Aug 16 2012 - 17:34:19 EST


J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 04:42:08PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > Hm, weird. In the good case the cb_recall's done with auth_unix, in the
> > bad case with auth_null. OK, that should be enough to go on....
> >
> > Thanks for digging into this!
>
> This should fix it--could you confirm?

Yep, looks like that fixes it.

> commit e950bebdac1f17121f972728489cdba43734d56d
> Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Aug 16 17:01:21 2012 -0400
>
> nfsd4: fix security flavor of NFSv4.0 callback
>
> Commit d5497fc693a446ce9100fcf4117c3f795ddfd0d2 "nfsd4: move rq_flavor
> into svc_cred" forgot to remove cl_flavor from the client, leaving two
> places (cl_flavor and cl_cred.cr_flavor) for the flavor to be stored.
> After that patch, the latter was the one that was updated, but the
> former was the one that the callback used.
>
> Symptoms were a long delay on utime(). This is because the utime()
> generated a setattr which recalled a delegation, but the cb_recall was
> ignored by the client because it had the wrong security flavor.
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Reported-by: Jamie Heilman <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> index cbaf4f8..4c7bd35 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> @@ -651,12 +651,12 @@ static int setup_callback_client(struct nfs4_client *clp, struct nfs4_cb_conn *c
>
> if (clp->cl_minorversion == 0) {
> if (!clp->cl_cred.cr_principal &&
> - (clp->cl_flavor >= RPC_AUTH_GSS_KRB5))
> + (clp->cl_cred.cr_flavor >= RPC_AUTH_GSS_KRB5))
> return -EINVAL;
> args.client_name = clp->cl_cred.cr_principal;
> args.prognumber = conn->cb_prog,
> args.protocol = XPRT_TRANSPORT_TCP;
> - args.authflavor = clp->cl_flavor;
> + args.authflavor = clp->cl_cred.cr_flavor;
> clp->cl_cb_ident = conn->cb_ident;
> } else {
> if (!conn->cb_xprt)
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/state.h b/fs/nfsd/state.h
> index 167d7d8..9db0bb5 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/state.h
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/state.h
> @@ -231,7 +231,6 @@ struct nfs4_client {
> nfs4_verifier cl_verifier; /* generated by client */
> time_t cl_time; /* time of last lease renewal */
> struct sockaddr_storage cl_addr; /* client ipaddress */
> - u32 cl_flavor; /* setclientid pseudoflavor */
> struct svc_cred cl_cred; /* setclientid principal */
> clientid_t cl_clientid; /* generated by server */
> nfs4_verifier cl_confirm; /* generated by server */
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