Re: Regression with initramfs and nfsroot (appears to be in the dcache)

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:06:22PM -0800, Patrick McLean wrote:

> I have a trivial reproducer and am happy to help debug in any way that
> I can. That patch seems to fix the problem, and produces these
> warnings in dmesg:
> 
> [    3.306483] dracut: Switching root
> [    4.324378] systemd-udevd[552]: starting version 195
> [    9.254972] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [    9.254981] WARNING: at fs/nfs/dir.c:454
> nfs_readdir_page_filler+0x1cc/0x3a2()
> [    9.254983] Hardware name: Bochs
> [    9.254984] Modules linked in:
> [    9.254989] Pid: 676, comm: ls Not tainted 3.7.0-rc7+ #35
> [    9.254990] Call Trace:
> [    9.254999]  [<ffffffff8108534c>] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x76/0x8a
> [    9.255002]  [<ffffffff8117de91>] ? nfs_readdir_page_filler+0x1cc/0x3a2
> [    9.255005]  [<ffffffff8117e683>] ? nfs_readdir_xdr_to_array+0x1c0/0x22d
> [    9.255009]  [<ffffffff8117e70c>] ? nfs_readdir_filler+0x1c/0x6b
> [    9.255014]  [<ffffffff810dca9a>] ? add_to_page_cache_lru+0x2c/0x36
> [    9.255017]  [<ffffffff8117e6f0>] ? nfs_readdir_xdr_to_array+0x22d/0x22d
> [    9.255020]  [<ffffffff810dcbe3>] ? do_read_cache_page+0x7d/0x12b
> [    9.255025]  [<ffffffff811274f8>] ? sys_ioctl+0x7a/0x7a
> [    9.255028]  [<ffffffff810dccc6>] ? read_cache_page+0x7/0x10
> [    9.255031]  [<ffffffff8117e888>] ? nfs_readdir+0x12d/0x435
> [    9.255036]  [<ffffffff8118e653>] ? nfs3_xdr_dec_create3res+0xc5/0xc5
> [    9.255039]  [<ffffffff811274f8>] ? sys_ioctl+0x7a/0x7a
> [    9.255042]  [<ffffffff811274f8>] ? sys_ioctl+0x7a/0x7a
> [    9.255045]  [<ffffffff811277b3>] ? vfs_readdir+0x6c/0xa7
> [    9.255049]  [<ffffffff811278da>] ? sys_getdents+0x7e/0xdc
> [    9.255053]  [<ffffffff814ac769>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> [    9.255055] ---[ end trace 5e8b5f37fe752ab1 ]---

OK...  So we have differing entry->fh and NFS_FH(dentry->d_inode).  Something
like
static void dump_fh(const struct nfs_fh *fh)
{
	int i;
	printk(KERN_INFO "FH(%d)", fh->size);
	for (i = 0; i < fh->size; i++)
		printk(KERN_CONT "%c%02x", i ? ' ' : '[', fh->data[i]);
	printk(KERN_CONT "]\n");
}
with dump_fh(entry->fh); dump_fh(NFS_FH(dentry->d_inode)); added next to
that WARN_ON(1) would probably be interesting.  And probably would make
sense to print filename->name as well, to see which files it is about.