Re: [nfs-utils PATCH] mountd: fix checking for errors when exporting filesystems.

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

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:25:29AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> 
> commit 5604b35a61e22930873ffc4e9971002f578e7978
>   nfs-utils: Increase the stdio file buffer size for procfs files
> 
> changed writes to some sysfs files to be line buffered (_IOLBF) where
> they weren't before.  While this probably makes sense, it introduced a bug.
> 
> With fully buffered streams, you don't expect to get an error until you
> call fflush().
> With line buffered streams you can get the error from fprintf() et al.
> 
> qword_eol() only tests the return from fflush(), not from fprintf().  Consequently
> errors were not noticed.
> 
> One result of this is that if you export, with crossmnt, a filesystem underneath
> which are mounted non-exportable filesystems (e.g. /proc) then an 'ls -l' on the
> client will block indefinitely waiting for a meaningful 'yes' or 'no' from the
> server, but will never get one.
> 
> This patch changes qword_eol to test both fprintf and fflush.

Makes sense to me.--b.

> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
> 
> diff --git a/support/nfs/cacheio.c b/support/nfs/cacheio.c
> index e641c45..61e07a8 100644
> --- a/support/nfs/cacheio.c
> +++ b/support/nfs/cacheio.c
> @@ -162,11 +162,16 @@ int qword_eol(FILE *f)
>  {
>  	int err;
>  
> -	fprintf(f,"\n");
> -	err = fflush(f);
> -	if (err) {
> -		xlog_warn("qword_eol: fflush failed: errno %d (%s)",
> +	err = fprintf(f,"\n");
> +	if (err < 0) {
> +		xlog_warn("qword_eol: fprintf failed: errno %d (%s)",
>  			    errno, strerror(errno));
> +	} else {
> +		err = fflush(f);
> +		if (err) {
> +			xlog_warn("qword_eol: fflush failed: errno %d (%s)",
> +				  errno, strerror(errno));
> +		}
>  	}
>  	/*
>  	 * We must send one line (and one line only) in a single write