[PATCH v2 0/1] NFS: Fix -EREMOTEIO error on interrupted slots

[schumaker.anna@gmail.com]

From: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>

The scenario is as follows:
 - The client attempts to remove a file on the server, but the remove is
   interrupted AFTER the server receives it.
 - At the same time, another thread removes the same file on the server
   before NFSD has a chance to remove it
 - The client then attempts another NFS operation with the same slot.

Because another thread removed the file the vfs returns -ENOENT to NFSD,
which causes NFSD to reply to the next operation on the same slot with
the result of the REMOVE (even if we asked for an OPEN). The client
detects the mismatched operations during decoding, and returns
-EREMOTEIO to the application.

The timing is tricky to get right on this, so I added a 3-second sleep
to nfsd4_remove() before calling nfsd_unlink():

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
index a09c35f0f6f0..bd93be50eaa8 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
@@ -851,6 +851,8 @@ nfsd4_remove(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate,
 
 	if (opens_in_grace(SVC_NET(rqstp)))
 		return nfserr_grace;
+
+	ssleep(3);
 	status = nfsd_unlink(rqstp, &cstate->current_fh, 0,
 			     remove->rm_name, remove->rm_namelen);
 	if (!status) {


I'm able to hit this every time using the following script combined with
the artifical delay on the server:

#!/bin/bash
SERVER=192.168.111.200
SERVER_DIR=/srv/test
CLIENT_DIR=/mnt/test

ssh $SERVER "echo test > $SERVER_DIR/test1"
rm -v $CLIENT_DIR/test1 &
sleep 1
killall -9 rm
ssh $SERVER "rm $SERVER_DIR/test1"
echo "test2" > $CLIENT_DIR/test2


I was able to solve the issue by sending a SEQUENCE using the same slot.
The server replies to this with NFS4ERR_SEQ_FALSE_RETRY instead of an
operation from the reply cache, and we are able to recover from here.

Thoughts?
Anna

Anna Schumaker (1):
  NFS: Fix interrupted slots by sending a solo SEQUENCE operation

 fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

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