Re: rpc.mountd stops functioning

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:31:20PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> I don't think this patch is needed (though it wouldn't actually break anything).
> The loop in svc_run.c starts:
> 
> 
> 		readfds = svc_fdset;
> 		cache_set_fds(&readfds);
> 
> so readfds is completely initialised at the top of the loop, so
> clearing something at the bottom (which is essentially what this patch
> does) should be a no-op.
> 
> Am I wrong?

Note that cache_process_req() (which the patch below modifies) is not
all the way at the bottom of the loop; there's still an importan call to
svc_getreqset() after it.

If I understand the problem correctly, what happens is that if select()
returns with a set that includes two file descriptors, the first for a
cache channel and the second for an rpc socket, and if we don't clear
the first file descriptor from that set before passing it to
svc_getreqset(), then the rpc code will try to read an rpc request from
a cache channel file, and will get very confused.

The symptom is that mountd may die occasionally on a server that's
using the new interface (hence mountd is handling upcalls), and that's
getting a lot of mount requests.

I've never seen the bug myself, because I'm almost always using nfsv4,
hence only use mountd to handle upcalls....

--b.


> > >From Garrick Staples <garrick@usc.edu>:
> > 
> > After mountd handles a cache upcall, we should clear the relevant bits in the
> > fd_set.
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> >  nfs-utils-1.0.6-bfields/utils/mountd/cache.c |    1 +
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff -puN utils/mountd/cache.c~cache_select_bugfix utils/mountd/cache.c
> > --- nfs-utils-1.0.6/utils/mountd/cache.c~cache_select_bugfix	2004-07-14 12:52:57.000000000 -0400
> > +++ nfs-utils-1.0.6-bfields/utils/mountd/cache.c	2004-07-14 12:52:57.000000000 -0400
> > @@ -315,6 +315,7 @@ int cache_process_req(fd_set *readfds) 
> >  		    FD_ISSET(fileno(cachelist[i].f), readfds)) {
> >  			cnt++;
> >  			cachelist[i].cache_handle(cachelist[i].f);
> > +			FD_CLR(fileno(cachelist[i].f), readfds);
> >  		}
> >  	}
> >  	return cnt;
> > _
> > 
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