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* [PATCH 0/3] fix backchannel crash due to multipath
@ 2016-05-24 21:16 J. Bruce Fields
  2016-05-24 21:16 ` [PATCH 1/3] SUNRPC: fix xprt leak on xps allocation failure J. Bruce Fields
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 7+ messages in thread
From: J. Bruce Fields @ 2016-05-24 21:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Trond Myklebust, Anna Schumaker; +Cc: linux-nfs, J. Bruce Fields

From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>

pynfs can crash the nfs server since the new multipath code.  The
problem is that pynfs uses the same tcp connection for multiple v4
clients (something the spec explicitly allows).  The callback client in
such cases has to share the same rpc_xprt.  The new rpc code, when it
creates two callback clients sharing the same rpc_xprt, ends up trying
to keep that rpc_xprt on the lists of two different rpc_xprt_switch's.
The first symptom I see is a list corruption warning.

So, I'm enforcing the requirement that there be only one backchannel
rpc_xprt_switch per tcp connection by doing as we do in the rpc_xprt
case: keeping a pointer to it in the svc_xprt, and using that when it's
available instead of allocating a new one.

That's a pretty straightforward fix (and I've verified it works), but
doesn't look very elegant.  If there's a better solution, I'm all ears.

--b.

J. Bruce Fields (3):
  SUNRPC: fix xprt leak on xps allocation failure
  nfsd4/rpc: move backchannel create logic into rpc code
  rpc: share one xps between all backchannels

 fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c          | 18 +-----------------
 include/linux/sunrpc/clnt.h     |  2 --
 include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h |  1 +
 include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h     |  1 +
 net/sunrpc/clnt.c               | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c           |  2 ++
 net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c           |  1 +
 7 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)

-- 
2.5.5


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* Re: [PATCH 0/3] fix backchannel crash due to multipath
@ 2016-06-13 18:21 J. Bruce Fields
  2016-06-13 19:24 ` Trond Myklebust
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: J. Bruce Fields @ 2016-06-13 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Trond Myklebust, Anna Schumaker; +Cc: linux-nfs

On March 24 J. Bruce Fields said:
> pynfs can crash the nfs server since the new multipath code.  The
> problem is that pynfs uses the same tcp connection for multiple v4
> clients (something the spec explicitly allows).  The callback client in
> such cases has to share the same rpc_xprt.  The new rpc code, when it
> creates two callback clients sharing the same rpc_xprt, ends up trying
> to keep that rpc_xprt on the lists of two different rpc_xprt_switch's.
> The first symptom I see is a list corruption warning.
>
> So, I'm enforcing the requirement that there be only one backchannel
> rpc_xprt_switch per tcp connection by doing as we do in the rpc_xprt
> case: keeping a pointer to it in the svc_xprt, and using that when it's
> available instead of allocating a new one.

> That's a pretty straightforward fix (and I've verified it works), but
> doesn't look very elegant.  If there's a better solution, I'm all ears.

I haven't come up with anything neater, and kind of need the crash
fixed.  ACK or NACK?  I can take it through my tree if it's an ACK.

--b.

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