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* [PATCH v2 0/8] Fix premature completion of rpc_pipefs upcalls
@ 2026-09-01 20:19 Chuck Lever
  2026-09-01 20:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] NFSD: Don't complete a cld upcall the daemon has not read Chuck Lever
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From: Chuck Lever @ 2026-09-01 20:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeff Layton, NeilBrown, Olga Kornievskaia, Dai Ngo, Tom Talpey,
	Scott Mayhew, Trond Myklebust, Anna Schumaker
  Cc: linux-nfs, Farhad Alemi, Chuck Lever

Farhad Alemi's syzkaller run against 7.1-rc5 hit a KASAN
vmalloc-out-of-bounds in rpc_queue_upcall() while NFSD was starting
client tracking:

  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/CA+0ovCjVF58WLeen2ctdzHyWUASAAW3Y=Yjihyq0pFApYawtDg@mail.gmail.com/

The cld downcall matches a reply to its upcall by xid alone. If a
write arrives before nfsdcld has read the upcall, the waiter returns
while its struct rpc_pipe_msg is still queued, and the pipe is left
holding a list_head into a dead stack frame. The blocklayout device
upcall has the same bug, plus two of its own: the waiter can go to
sleep after the reply has arrived, and a reply left over from a
purged upcall is taken as a fresh one.

Guarding the reply exposes the opposite failure. Once a daemon has
read a whole upcall, rpc_pipe_read() unlinks the message from every
pipe list, so nothing the pipe purges on close can reach it. A
daemon that exits between the read and the write leaves its waiter
sleeping uninterruptibly with no way back. bl_resolve_deviceid()
holds nn->bl_mutex across that wait, so every later device
resolution in the net namespace blocks behind it.

rpc_pipefs pipes are mode 0600, so the writer is a daemon running as
root. These patches guard against a broken or hostile daemon, which
is unlikely. I consider the series as hardening rather than urgent.

The gss and idmap consumers keep their message in an object that
outlives the upcall, and gss also releases what a departing daemon
left behind. Neither has either bug.

The application order of the patches matters, so I'm happy to take
the lot through the NFSD tree. An Acked-by: from the NFS client
maintainers would be great.

Farhad, a run of your reproducer against this series would help.

---
Changes in v2:
- Retire the upcall on accept; drop the racy completion_done() test.
- Retire a purged upcall in bl_pipe_destroy_msg(), not in the waiter.
- New patch 6: set nn->cld_net before the cld pipe can be opened.
- New patch 7: complete a cld upcall when nfsdcld closes the pipe.
- New patch 8: complete a device upcall when blkmapd closes the pipe.
- Link to v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260830-alemi-v1-0-463f80b9e9a8@kernel.org

---
Chuck Lever (8):
      NFSD: Don't complete a cld upcall the daemon has not read
      NFSD: Move the cld upcall message out of the caller's stack frame
      NFSD: Complete a cld upcall when copying its reply fails
      NFSD: Reject an oversized principal hash from nfsdcld
      pnfs/blocklayout: Complete a device upcall only on its own reply
      NFSD: Set nn->cld_net before registering the cld pipe
      NFSD: Complete a cld upcall when the daemon closes the pipe
      pnfs/blocklayout: Complete a device upcall when the pipe is closed

 fs/nfs/blocklayout/blocklayout.h |  5 ---
 fs/nfs/blocklayout/rpc_pipefs.c  | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 fs/nfs/netns.h                   |  5 ++-
 fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c            | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 4 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: e3c3b1a8188b192b125ae1fc9861d9a5d8d43d85
change-id: 20260830-alemi-d9f420956e8d

Best regards,
--  
Chuck Lever


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2026-09-01 20:19 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] NFSD: Reject an oversized principal hash from nfsdcld Chuck Lever
2026-09-01 20:19 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] pnfs/blocklayout: Complete a device upcall only on its own reply Chuck Lever
2026-09-01 20:19 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] NFSD: Set nn->cld_net before registering the cld pipe Chuck Lever
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