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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Cc: pnfs@linux-nfs.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com>,
	Ricardo Labiaga <Ricardo.Labiaga@netapp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 05/12] nfsd41: Backchannel: callback infrastructure
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:04:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090914200423.GE1658@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AAE7C19.7070600@panasas.com>

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 08:23:37PM +0300, Benny Halevy wrote:
> Where exactly is the NULL deref?
> 
> > 
> > Note--that's fixed 7 patches later in fsd41: Refactor create_client(),
> > but I don't actually understand how yet.
> 
> unconf's cl_flavor initialization was moved in the latter patch
> from nfsd4_setclientid to create_client so maybe this could
> be the culprit (though, assuming it is initialized to 0
> it will choosing implicitly authnull_ops in rpcauth_create()
> which _should_ work...)

Oog, yes, turns out auth_null doesn't initialize the cred hashtable.  So
also reproduceable by mounting with "mount -tnfs4 -osec=null", then
touching a file.  So either we should be using some other interface, or
rpcauth_lookupcred should be checking au_credcache, or something.

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-14 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-04 16:18 [PATCH 0/10] nfsd41 backchannel patches for 2.6.32 Benny Halevy
2009-09-04 16:31 ` [PATCH 01/10] nfsd41: sunrpc: move struct rpc_buffer def into sunrpc.h Benny Halevy
2009-09-04 16:31 ` [PATCH 02/10] nfsd41: sunrpc: Added rpc server-side backchannel handling Benny Halevy
2009-09-04 17:00   ` Trond Myklebust
2009-09-04 16:31 ` [PATCH 03/10] nfsd4: fix whitespace in NFSPROC4_CLNT_CB_NULL definition Benny Halevy
2009-09-04 16:32 ` [PATCH 04/10] nfsd41: Backchannel: callback infrastructure Benny Halevy
2009-09-04 16:32 ` [PATCH 05/10] nfsd41: Backchannel: Add sequence arguments to callback RPC arguments Benny Halevy
2009-09-04 16:32 ` [PATCH 06/10] nfsd41: Backchannel: Server backchannel RPC wait queue Benny Halevy
2009-09-04 16:32 ` [PATCH 07/10] nfsd41: Backchannel: Setup sequence information Benny Halevy
2009-09-04 16:32 ` [PATCH 08/10] nfsd41: Backchannel: cb_sequence callback Benny Halevy
2009-09-04 16:33 ` [PATCH 09/10] nfsd41: Backchannel: Implement cb_recall over NFSv4.1 Benny Halevy
2009-09-04 16:33 ` [PATCH 10/10] nfsd41: Refactor create_client() Benny Halevy
2009-09-10  9:23 ` [PATCH v2 0/12] nfsd41 backchannel patches for 2.6.32 Benny Halevy
2009-09-10  9:25   ` [PATCH v2 01/12] nfsd41: sunrpc: move struct rpc_buffer def into sunrpc.h Benny Halevy
2009-09-10 16:11     ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-10  9:25   ` [PATCH v2 02/12] nfsd41: sunrpc: Added rpc server-side backchannel handling Benny Halevy
2009-09-10 11:49     ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]       ` <1252583366.8722.121.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-10 12:33         ` Benny Halevy
2009-09-10 13:19           ` [pnfs] " Alexandros Batsakis
2009-09-11 22:29           ` Build error of latest Linux-pnfs 2.6.31 Sun_Peixing
     [not found]             ` <44328C067A5E0945856BF1EF5BE23689A29888-1Zg0zMUlrbepizOVUD2tfjjd7nCn89gW@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-13  9:31               ` Benny Halevy
2009-09-10 14:32         ` [PATCH v3 02/12] nfsd41: sunrpc: Added rpc server-side backchannel handling Benny Halevy
2009-09-10  9:25   ` [PATCH v2 03/12] nfsd41: sunrpc: add new xprt class for nfsv4.1 backchannel Benny Halevy
2009-09-10 14:33     ` [PATCH v3 " Benny Halevy
2009-09-11 20:58       ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-11 21:12         ` [pnfs] " Alexandros Batsakis
     [not found]           ` <5e24e8930909111412r2c7bdc58u119767517154d6-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-13 20:28             ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-14  8:17               ` Benny Halevy
2009-09-10  9:25   ` [PATCH v2 04/12] nfsd4: fix whitespace in NFSPROC4_CLNT_CB_NULL definition Benny Halevy
2009-09-10  9:25   ` [PATCH v2 05/12] nfsd41: Backchannel: callback infrastructure Benny Halevy
2009-09-14 16:35     ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-14 16:49       ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-14 17:23         ` Benny Halevy
2009-09-14 20:04           ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2009-09-14 20:17             ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]               ` <1252959452.6866.92.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-14 20:39                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-14 20:47                   ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]                     ` <1252961253.6866.98.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-14 20:56                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-14 21:09                         ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]                           ` <1252962546.6866.102.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-14 21:16                             ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]                               ` <1252962982.6866.104.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-15 15:10                                 ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-15 17:32                                   ` Trond Myklebust
     [not found]                                     ` <1253035933.4456.43.camel-rJ7iovZKK19ZJLDQqaL3InhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org>
2009-09-16  1:06                                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-16  1:07                                         ` [PATCH 1/4] nfsd4: fix null dereference creating nfsv4 callback client J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-16  1:07                                           ` [PATCH 2/4] SUNRPC: Defer the auth_gss upcall when the RPC call is asynchronous J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-16  1:07                                             ` [PATCH 3/4] nfsd4: allow nfs4 state startup to fail J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-16  1:07                                               ` [PATCH 4/4] nfsd4: use common rpc_cred for all callbacks J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-10  9:26   ` [PATCH v2 06/12] nfsd41: Backchannel: Add sequence arguments to callback RPC arguments Benny Halevy
2009-09-10  9:26   ` [PATCH v2 07/12] nfsd41: Backchannel: Server backchannel RPC wait queue Benny Halevy
2009-09-10  9:26   ` [PATCH v2 08/12] nfsd41: Backchannel: Setup sequence information Benny Halevy
2009-09-10  9:26   ` [PATCH v2 09/12] nfsd41: Backchannel: cb_sequence callback Benny Halevy
2009-09-13 20:27     ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-14  7:21       ` [pnfs] " Boaz Harrosh
2009-09-10  9:27   ` [PATCH v2 10/12] nfsd41: Backchannel: Implement cb_recall over NFSv4.1 Benny Halevy
2009-09-13 20:39     ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-14  8:28       ` Benny Halevy
2009-09-10  9:27   ` [PATCH v2 11/12] nfsd41: modify nfsd4.1 backchannel to use new xprt class Benny Halevy
2009-09-10  9:27   ` [PATCH v2 12/12] nfsd41: Refactor create_client() Benny Halevy
2009-09-10 14:37   ` [pnfs] [PATCH v2 0/12] nfsd41 backchannel patches for 2.6.32 Benny Halevy
2009-09-10 14:45     ` Benny Halevy
2009-09-10 16:28     ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-10 17:10       ` Trond Myklebust
2009-09-17 19:39   ` J. Bruce Fields
2009-09-17 19:47     ` Benny Halevy

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