[PATCH] nfsd: try nfsdcld client tracker in containers

[PATCH] nfsd: try nfsdcld client tracker in containers

[Stanislav Kinsbursky]

Currently, UMH and Legacy trackers are disabled in containers.
But existent logic can lookup nfs4_recoverydir in a container, and in this
case will try to init Legacy tracker and skip nfsdcld client tracker.
This actually means, that no client tracker will be started in a container at
all, because Legacy tracker init will return -EINVAL for a container.
So, let's change "-EINVAL" on "-ENOTSUPP" for legacy tracker init call in a
container and in case of this error code, try nfsdcld client tracker instead
of returning a error.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
index e0ae1cf..8aa069a 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ nfsd4_legacy_tracking_init(struct net *net)
 	if (net != &init_net) {
 		WARN(1, KERN_ERR "NFSD: attempt to initialize legacy client "
 			"tracking in a container!\n");
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return -ENOTSUPP;
 	}
 
 	status = nfs4_legacy_state_init(net);
@@ -1285,14 +1285,17 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
 	/*
 	 * See if the recoverydir exists and is a directory. If it is,
 	 * then use the legacy ops.
+	 * If legacy ops init return -ENOSUPP, then we are in a container and
+	 * should try nfsdcld client tracking.
 	 */
 	nn->client_tracking_ops = &nfsd4_legacy_tracking_ops;
 	status = kern_path(nfs4_recoverydir(), LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
 	if (!status) {
-		status = S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode);
+		if (S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
+			status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
 		path_put(&path);
-		if (status)
-			goto do_init;
+		if (status != -ENOTSUPP)
+			goto do_exit;
 	}
 
 	/* Finally, try to use nfsdcld */
@@ -1302,6 +1305,7 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
 			"nfsdcltrack.\n");
 do_init:
 	status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
+do_exit:
 	if (status) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "NFSD: Unable to initialize client "
 				    "recovery tracking! (%d)\n", status);

Re: [PATCH] nfsd: try nfsdcld client tracker in containers

[Jeff Layton]

On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:24:23 +0300
Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> wrote:

> Currently, UMH and Legacy trackers are disabled in containers.
> But existent logic can lookup nfs4_recoverydir in a container, and in this
> case will try to init Legacy tracker and skip nfsdcld client tracker.
> This actually means, that no client tracker will be started in a container at
> all, because Legacy tracker init will return -EINVAL for a container.
> So, let's change "-EINVAL" on "-ENOTSUPP" for legacy tracker init call in a
> container and in case of this error code, try nfsdcld client tracker instead
> of returning a error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
> ---
>  fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c |   12 ++++++++----
>  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> index e0ae1cf..8aa069a 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ nfsd4_legacy_tracking_init(struct net *net)
>  	if (net != &init_net) {
>  		WARN(1, KERN_ERR "NFSD: attempt to initialize legacy client "
>  			"tracking in a container!\n");
> -		return -EINVAL;
> +		return -ENOTSUPP;
>  	}
>  
>  	status = nfs4_legacy_state_init(net);
> @@ -1285,14 +1285,17 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
>  	/*
>  	 * See if the recoverydir exists and is a directory. If it is,
>  	 * then use the legacy ops.
> +	 * If legacy ops init return -ENOSUPP, then we are in a container and
> +	 * should try nfsdcld client tracking.
>  	 */
>  	nn->client_tracking_ops = &nfsd4_legacy_tracking_ops;
>  	status = kern_path(nfs4_recoverydir(), LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
>  	if (!status) {
> -		status = S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode);
> +		if (S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
> +			status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
>  		path_put(&path);
> -		if (status)
> -			goto do_init;
> +		if (status != -ENOTSUPP)
> +			goto do_exit;
>  	}
>  
>  	/* Finally, try to use nfsdcld */
> @@ -1302,6 +1305,7 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
>  			"nfsdcltrack.\n");
>  do_init:
>  	status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
> +do_exit:
>  	if (status) {
>  		printk(KERN_WARNING "NFSD: Unable to initialize client "
>  				    "recovery tracking! (%d)\n", status);
> 

Seems OK as a stopgap fix. We're removing nfsdcld in 3.10 though so
this won't help prospective users of nfsd in a container for
long...particularly since our expectation is that no one has actually
ever deployed nfsdcld.

This is something that really needs to be fixed the right way since a
NFS server that doesn't allow clients to reclaim state after a reboot is
potentially dangerous...

I'm afraid I haven't been following along as closely as I should have
been. What's the rationale for disabling the UMH upcall? Is there no
way to make it so that new processes it spawns are done within the
correct container?

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

Re: [PATCH] nfsd: try nfsdcld client tracker in containers

[Stanislav Kinsbursky]

01.03.2013 17:09, Jeff Layton пишет:
> On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:24:23 +0300
> Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> wrote:
>
>> Currently, UMH and Legacy trackers are disabled in containers.
>> But existent logic can lookup nfs4_recoverydir in a container, and in this
>> case will try to init Legacy tracker and skip nfsdcld client tracker.
>> This actually means, that no client tracker will be started in a container at
>> all, because Legacy tracker init will return -EINVAL for a container.
>> So, let's change "-EINVAL" on "-ENOTSUPP" for legacy tracker init call in a
>> container and in case of this error code, try nfsdcld client tracker instead
>> of returning a error.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
>> ---
>>   fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c |   12 ++++++++----
>>   1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
>> index e0ae1cf..8aa069a 100644
>> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
>> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
>> @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ nfsd4_legacy_tracking_init(struct net *net)
>>   	if (net != &init_net) {
>>   		WARN(1, KERN_ERR "NFSD: attempt to initialize legacy client "
>>   			"tracking in a container!\n");
>> -		return -EINVAL;
>> +		return -ENOTSUPP;
>>   	}
>>
>>   	status = nfs4_legacy_state_init(net);
>> @@ -1285,14 +1285,17 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
>>   	/*
>>   	 * See if the recoverydir exists and is a directory. If it is,
>>   	 * then use the legacy ops.
>> +	 * If legacy ops init return -ENOSUPP, then we are in a container and
>> +	 * should try nfsdcld client tracking.
>>   	 */
>>   	nn->client_tracking_ops = &nfsd4_legacy_tracking_ops;
>>   	status = kern_path(nfs4_recoverydir(), LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
>>   	if (!status) {
>> -		status = S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode);
>> +		if (S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
>> +			status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
>>   		path_put(&path);
>> -		if (status)
>> -			goto do_init;
>> +		if (status != -ENOTSUPP)
>> +			goto do_exit;
>>   	}
>>
>>   	/* Finally, try to use nfsdcld */
>> @@ -1302,6 +1305,7 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
>>   			"nfsdcltrack.\n");
>>   do_init:
>>   	status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
>> +do_exit:
>>   	if (status) {
>>   		printk(KERN_WARNING "NFSD: Unable to initialize client "
>>   				    "recovery tracking! (%d)\n", status);
>>
>
> Seems OK as a stopgap fix. We're removing nfsdcld in 3.10 though so
> this won't help prospective users of nfsd in a container for
> long...particularly since our expectation is that no one has actually
> ever deployed nfsdcld.
>
> This is something that really needs to be fixed the right way since a
> NFS server that doesn't allow clients to reclaim state after a reboot is
> potentially dangerous...
>
> I'm afraid I haven't been following along as closely as I should have
> been. What's the rationale for disabling the UMH upcall? Is there no
> way to make it so that new processes it spawns are done within the
> correct container?
>

Straight answer is "no, there is no way to do so": UMH threads are spawned in "init" context.
But we solve the problem in a slightly different way.

So, here are my ideas about all the trackers (I haven't shared them yet, so I do it now):

1) nfsdcld uses SUNRPC pipefs, which is containerised already. So it was very easy to containerise it.

2) Legacy tracker uses path. All is great and simple until we imagine two containers with the same root. In this case we have to make sure, that we can start 
only one NFSd with this path (I don't care about user-space problems).
I was thinking about global in-kernel RB tree for all paths. But maybe even a simple global list is enough (not so many NFSd can be started, and it not a 
fast-path to optimise the search over all used paths).

3) UMH lookup and execute binary from current root. This problem just chasing all the containerisation work. So, either UHM logic have to updated (which is not 
trivial or easy to implement and push upstream), or process root have to swapped to the right (container's) one. This, BTW, not that hard, because UMH call 
accept "init" callback, which can be used to swap the root right before do_execve() is called.

What do you, guys, think about all this?

-- 
Best regards,
Stanislav Kinsbursky

Re: [PATCH] nfsd: try nfsdcld client tracker in containers

[Jeff Layton]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:38:45 +0400
Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> wrote:

> 01.03.2013 17:09, Jeff Layton пишет:
> > On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:24:23 +0300
> > Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Currently, UMH and Legacy trackers are disabled in containers.
> >> But existent logic can lookup nfs4_recoverydir in a container, and in this
> >> case will try to init Legacy tracker and skip nfsdcld client tracker.
> >> This actually means, that no client tracker will be started in a container at
> >> all, because Legacy tracker init will return -EINVAL for a container.
> >> So, let's change "-EINVAL" on "-ENOTSUPP" for legacy tracker init call in a
> >> container and in case of this error code, try nfsdcld client tracker instead
> >> of returning a error.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
> >> ---
> >>   fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c |   12 ++++++++----
> >>   1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> >> index e0ae1cf..8aa069a 100644
> >> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> >> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> >> @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ nfsd4_legacy_tracking_init(struct net *net)
> >>   	if (net != &init_net) {
> >>   		WARN(1, KERN_ERR "NFSD: attempt to initialize legacy client "
> >>   			"tracking in a container!\n");
> >> -		return -EINVAL;
> >> +		return -ENOTSUPP;
> >>   	}
> >>
> >>   	status = nfs4_legacy_state_init(net);
> >> @@ -1285,14 +1285,17 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
> >>   	/*
> >>   	 * See if the recoverydir exists and is a directory. If it is,
> >>   	 * then use the legacy ops.
> >> +	 * If legacy ops init return -ENOSUPP, then we are in a container and
> >> +	 * should try nfsdcld client tracking.
> >>   	 */
> >>   	nn->client_tracking_ops = &nfsd4_legacy_tracking_ops;
> >>   	status = kern_path(nfs4_recoverydir(), LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
> >>   	if (!status) {
> >> -		status = S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode);
> >> +		if (S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
> >> +			status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
> >>   		path_put(&path);
> >> -		if (status)
> >> -			goto do_init;
> >> +		if (status != -ENOTSUPP)
> >> +			goto do_exit;
> >>   	}
> >>
> >>   	/* Finally, try to use nfsdcld */
> >> @@ -1302,6 +1305,7 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
> >>   			"nfsdcltrack.\n");
> >>   do_init:
> >>   	status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
> >> +do_exit:
> >>   	if (status) {
> >>   		printk(KERN_WARNING "NFSD: Unable to initialize client "
> >>   				    "recovery tracking! (%d)\n", status);
> >>
> >
> > Seems OK as a stopgap fix. We're removing nfsdcld in 3.10 though so
> > this won't help prospective users of nfsd in a container for
> > long...particularly since our expectation is that no one has actually
> > ever deployed nfsdcld.
> >
> > This is something that really needs to be fixed the right way since a
> > NFS server that doesn't allow clients to reclaim state after a reboot is
> > potentially dangerous...
> >
> > I'm afraid I haven't been following along as closely as I should have
> > been. What's the rationale for disabling the UMH upcall? Is there no
> > way to make it so that new processes it spawns are done within the
> > correct container?
> >
> 
> Straight answer is "no, there is no way to do so": UMH threads are spawned in "init" context.
> But we solve the problem in a slightly different way.
> 
> So, here are my ideas about all the trackers (I haven't shared them yet, so I do it now):
> 
> 1) nfsdcld uses SUNRPC pipefs, which is containerised already. So it was very easy to containerise it.
> 

Right, but we want this one to just go away. It got superceded by the
UMH upcall and probably shouldn't have been merged in the first place
(mea culpa). That'll get ripped out when the 3.10 merge window opens,
so we don't really want to encourage anyone to use it.

> 2) Legacy tracker uses path. All is great and simple until we imagine two containers with the same root. In this case we have to make sure, that we can start 
> only one NFSd with this path (I don't care about user-space problems).
> I was thinking about global in-kernel RB tree for all paths. But maybe even a simple global list is enough (not so many NFSd can be started, and it not a 
> fast-path to optimise the search over all used paths).
> 

Well, you have a path, sure. In principle you could make that path
relative to the correct namespace for each server, and maybe allow this
to be settable on a per-namespace basis.

That said, it's probably best not to put to much effort into this
either. We want to eventually deprecate the legacy tracker too. So
limiting its use to the "init" namespace seems like a reasonable
stopgap fix, IMO...

> 3) UMH lookup and execute binary from current root. This problem just chasing all the containerisation work. So, either UHM logic have to updated (which is not 
> trivial or easy to implement and push upstream), or process root have to swapped to the right (container's) one. This, BTW, not that hard, because UMH call 
> accept "init" callback, which can be used to swap the root right before do_execve() is called.
> 
> What do you, guys, think about all this?
> 

You mean just change to use call_usermodehelper_fns() and pass in the
correct namespace info? Yeah that looks like the easiest fix and sounds
quite reasonable.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

Re: [PATCH] nfsd: try nfsdcld client tracker in containers

[Stanislav Kinsbursky]

04.03.2013 18:47, Jeff Layton пишет:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:38:45 +0400
> Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> wrote:
>
>> 01.03.2013 17:09, Jeff Layton пишет:
>>> On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:24:23 +0300
>>> Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Currently, UMH and Legacy trackers are disabled in containers.
>>>> But existent logic can lookup nfs4_recoverydir in a container, and in this
>>>> case will try to init Legacy tracker and skip nfsdcld client tracker.
>>>> This actually means, that no client tracker will be started in a container at
>>>> all, because Legacy tracker init will return -EINVAL for a container.
>>>> So, let's change "-EINVAL" on "-ENOTSUPP" for legacy tracker init call in a
>>>> container and in case of this error code, try nfsdcld client tracker instead
>>>> of returning a error.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>    fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c |   12 ++++++++----
>>>>    1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
>>>> index e0ae1cf..8aa069a 100644
>>>> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
>>>> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
>>>> @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ nfsd4_legacy_tracking_init(struct net *net)
>>>>    	if (net != &init_net) {
>>>>    		WARN(1, KERN_ERR "NFSD: attempt to initialize legacy client "
>>>>    			"tracking in a container!\n");
>>>> -		return -EINVAL;
>>>> +		return -ENOTSUPP;
>>>>    	}
>>>>
>>>>    	status = nfs4_legacy_state_init(net);
>>>> @@ -1285,14 +1285,17 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
>>>>    	/*
>>>>    	 * See if the recoverydir exists and is a directory. If it is,
>>>>    	 * then use the legacy ops.
>>>> +	 * If legacy ops init return -ENOSUPP, then we are in a container and
>>>> +	 * should try nfsdcld client tracking.
>>>>    	 */
>>>>    	nn->client_tracking_ops = &nfsd4_legacy_tracking_ops;
>>>>    	status = kern_path(nfs4_recoverydir(), LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
>>>>    	if (!status) {
>>>> -		status = S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode);
>>>> +		if (S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
>>>> +			status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
>>>>    		path_put(&path);
>>>> -		if (status)
>>>> -			goto do_init;
>>>> +		if (status != -ENOTSUPP)
>>>> +			goto do_exit;
>>>>    	}
>>>>
>>>>    	/* Finally, try to use nfsdcld */
>>>> @@ -1302,6 +1305,7 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
>>>>    			"nfsdcltrack.\n");
>>>>    do_init:
>>>>    	status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
>>>> +do_exit:
>>>>    	if (status) {
>>>>    		printk(KERN_WARNING "NFSD: Unable to initialize client "
>>>>    				    "recovery tracking! (%d)\n", status);
>>>>
>>> Seems OK as a stopgap fix. We're removing nfsdcld in 3.10 though so
>>> this won't help prospective users of nfsd in a container for
>>> long...particularly since our expectation is that no one has actually
>>> ever deployed nfsdcld.
>>>
>>> This is something that really needs to be fixed the right way since a
>>> NFS server that doesn't allow clients to reclaim state after a reboot is
>>> potentially dangerous...
>>>
>>> I'm afraid I haven't been following along as closely as I should have
>>> been. What's the rationale for disabling the UMH upcall? Is there no
>>> way to make it so that new processes it spawns are done within the
>>> correct container?
>>>
>> Straight answer is "no, there is no way to do so": UMH threads are spawned in "init" context.
>> But we solve the problem in a slightly different way.
>>
>> So, here are my ideas about all the trackers (I haven't shared them yet, so I do it now):
>>
>> 1) nfsdcld uses SUNRPC pipefs, which is containerised already. So it was very easy to containerise it.
>>
> Right, but we want this one to just go away. It got superceded by the
> UMH upcall and probably shouldn't have been merged in the first place
> (mea culpa). That'll get ripped out when the 3.10 merge window opens,
> so we don't really want to encourage anyone to use it.
>
>> 2) Legacy tracker uses path. All is great and simple until we imagine two containers with the same root. In this case we have to make sure, that we can start
>> only one NFSd with this path (I don't care about user-space problems).
>> I was thinking about global in-kernel RB tree for all paths. But maybe even a simple global list is enough (not so many NFSd can be started, and it not a
>> fast-path to optimise the search over all used paths).
>>
> Well, you have a path, sure. In principle you could make that path
> relative to the correct namespace for each server, and maybe allow this
> to be settable on a per-namespace basis.
>
> That said, it's probably best not to put to much effort into this
> either. We want to eventually deprecate the legacy tracker too. So
> limiting its use to the "init" namespace seems like a reasonable
> stopgap fix, IMO...

Ok, let's leave it for a while...

>
>> 3) UMH lookup and execute binary from current root. This problem just chasing all the containerisation work. So, either UHM logic have to updated (which is not
>> trivial or easy to implement and push upstream), or process root have to swapped to the right (container's) one. This, BTW, not that hard, because UMH call
>> accept "init" callback, which can be used to swap the root right before do_execve() is called.
>>
>> What do you, guys, think about all this?
>>
> You mean just change to use call_usermodehelper_fns() and pasn the
> correct namespace info? Yeah that looks like the easiest fix and sounds
> quite reasonable.
>

Nope. The problem here is not a namespace, but root path:
mount point + dentry.
do_execve() uses root path from current for search for any string path.
And this root path is inherited from the kernel thread. Which means,
that this is global "init" root path.
Thus, if is we want to search for path in a container (which could
have it's own nested root), we have to swap the root in usermode
helper thread before do_execve() call.
We can use call_usermodehelper_fns() to pass init callback and swap root 
in it.
But the problem here is that root swaping is not that... gentle.
I.e. we were trying to avoid it. For example, local SUNRPC transports
now connects synchronously (to make sure, that connection will be done in
proper root environment).
Nevertheless, I don't see any other way to containerize UMH so far.

Bruce, what's your opinion about this?

Re: [PATCH] nfsd: try nfsdcld client tracker in containers

[Jeff Layton]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 21:56:19 +0400
Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> wrote:

> 04.03.2013 18:47, Jeff Layton пишет:
> > On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:38:45 +0400
> > Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 01.03.2013 17:09, Jeff Layton пишет:
> >>> On Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:24:23 +0300
> >>> Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Currently, UMH and Legacy trackers are disabled in containers.
> >>>> But existent logic can lookup nfs4_recoverydir in a container, and in this
> >>>> case will try to init Legacy tracker and skip nfsdcld client tracker.
> >>>> This actually means, that no client tracker will be started in a container at
> >>>> all, because Legacy tracker init will return -EINVAL for a container.
> >>>> So, let's change "-EINVAL" on "-ENOTSUPP" for legacy tracker init call in a
> >>>> container and in case of this error code, try nfsdcld client tracker instead
> >>>> of returning a error.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>    fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c |   12 ++++++++----
> >>>>    1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> >>>> index e0ae1cf..8aa069a 100644
> >>>> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> >>>> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
> >>>> @@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ nfsd4_legacy_tracking_init(struct net *net)
> >>>>    	if (net != &init_net) {
> >>>>    		WARN(1, KERN_ERR "NFSD: attempt to initialize legacy client "
> >>>>    			"tracking in a container!\n");
> >>>> -		return -EINVAL;
> >>>> +		return -ENOTSUPP;
> >>>>    	}
> >>>>
> >>>>    	status = nfs4_legacy_state_init(net);
> >>>> @@ -1285,14 +1285,17 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
> >>>>    	/*
> >>>>    	 * See if the recoverydir exists and is a directory. If it is,
> >>>>    	 * then use the legacy ops.
> >>>> +	 * If legacy ops init return -ENOSUPP, then we are in a container and
> >>>> +	 * should try nfsdcld client tracking.
> >>>>    	 */
> >>>>    	nn->client_tracking_ops = &nfsd4_legacy_tracking_ops;
> >>>>    	status = kern_path(nfs4_recoverydir(), LOOKUP_FOLLOW, &path);
> >>>>    	if (!status) {
> >>>> -		status = S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode);
> >>>> +		if (S_ISDIR(path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
> >>>> +			status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
> >>>>    		path_put(&path);
> >>>> -		if (status)
> >>>> -			goto do_init;
> >>>> +		if (status != -ENOTSUPP)
> >>>> +			goto do_exit;
> >>>>    	}
> >>>>
> >>>>    	/* Finally, try to use nfsdcld */
> >>>> @@ -1302,6 +1305,7 @@ nfsd4_client_tracking_init(struct net *net)
> >>>>    			"nfsdcltrack.\n");
> >>>>    do_init:
> >>>>    	status = nn->client_tracking_ops->init(net);
> >>>> +do_exit:
> >>>>    	if (status) {
> >>>>    		printk(KERN_WARNING "NFSD: Unable to initialize client "
> >>>>    				    "recovery tracking! (%d)\n", status);
> >>>>
> >>> Seems OK as a stopgap fix. We're removing nfsdcld in 3.10 though so
> >>> this won't help prospective users of nfsd in a container for
> >>> long...particularly since our expectation is that no one has actually
> >>> ever deployed nfsdcld.
> >>>
> >>> This is something that really needs to be fixed the right way since a
> >>> NFS server that doesn't allow clients to reclaim state after a reboot is
> >>> potentially dangerous...
> >>>
> >>> I'm afraid I haven't been following along as closely as I should have
> >>> been. What's the rationale for disabling the UMH upcall? Is there no
> >>> way to make it so that new processes it spawns are done within the
> >>> correct container?
> >>>
> >> Straight answer is "no, there is no way to do so": UMH threads are spawned in "init" context.
> >> But we solve the problem in a slightly different way.
> >>
> >> So, here are my ideas about all the trackers (I haven't shared them yet, so I do it now):
> >>
> >> 1) nfsdcld uses SUNRPC pipefs, which is containerised already. So it was very easy to containerise it.
> >>
> > Right, but we want this one to just go away. It got superceded by the
> > UMH upcall and probably shouldn't have been merged in the first place
> > (mea culpa). That'll get ripped out when the 3.10 merge window opens,
> > so we don't really want to encourage anyone to use it.
> >
> >> 2) Legacy tracker uses path. All is great and simple until we imagine two containers with the same root. In this case we have to make sure, that we can start
> >> only one NFSd with this path (I don't care about user-space problems).
> >> I was thinking about global in-kernel RB tree for all paths. But maybe even a simple global list is enough (not so many NFSd can be started, and it not a
> >> fast-path to optimise the search over all used paths).
> >>
> > Well, you have a path, sure. In principle you could make that path
> > relative to the correct namespace for each server, and maybe allow this
> > to be settable on a per-namespace basis.
> >
> > That said, it's probably best not to put to much effort into this
> > either. We want to eventually deprecate the legacy tracker too. So
> > limiting its use to the "init" namespace seems like a reasonable
> > stopgap fix, IMO...
> 
> Ok, let's leave it for a while...
> 
> >
> >> 3) UMH lookup and execute binary from current root. This problem just chasing all the containerisation work. So, either UHM logic have to updated (which is not
> >> trivial or easy to implement and push upstream), or process root have to swapped to the right (container's) one. This, BTW, not that hard, because UMH call
> >> accept "init" callback, which can be used to swap the root right before do_execve() is called.
> >>
> >> What do you, guys, think about all this?
> >>
> > You mean just change to use call_usermodehelper_fns() and pasn the
> > correct namespace info? Yeah that looks like the easiest fix and sounds
> > quite reasonable.
> >
> 
> Nope. The problem here is not a namespace, but root path:
> mount point + dentry.
> do_execve() uses root path from current for search for any string path.
> And this root path is inherited from the kernel thread. Which means,
> that this is global "init" root path.
> Thus, if is we want to search for path in a container (which could
> have it's own nested root), we have to swap the root in usermode
> helper thread before do_execve() call.
> We can use call_usermodehelper_fns() to pass init callback and swap root 
> in it.
> But the problem here is that root swaping is not that... gentle.
> I.e. we were trying to avoid it. For example, local SUNRPC transports
> now connects synchronously (to make sure, that connection will be done in
> proper root environment).
> Nevertheless, I don't see any other way to containerize UMH so far.
> 
> Bruce, what's your opinion about this?
> 
> 

It doesn't seem all that awful here. Once we've spawned this new
process it'll just run to completion and exit within the container. We
shouldn't ever need to go back to the original root.

In the sunrpc layer, it's a little more complicated since you're
working with kernel threads and workqueues that may be shared between
containers (right?).

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>

Re: [PATCH] nfsd: try nfsdcld client tracker in containers

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:04:22PM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 21:56:19 +0400
> Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> wrote:
> 
> > 04.03.2013 18:47, Jeff Layton пишет:
> > > On Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:38:45 +0400
> > > Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com> wrote:
> > >> 3) UMH lookup and execute binary from current root. This problem just chasing all the containerisation work. So, either UHM logic have to updated (which is not
> > >> trivial or easy to implement and push upstream), or process root have to swapped to the right (container's) one. This, BTW, not that hard, because UMH call
> > >> accept "init" callback, which can be used to swap the root right before do_execve() is called.
> > >>
> > >> What do you, guys, think about all this?
> > >>
> > > You mean just change to use call_usermodehelper_fns() and pasn the
> > > correct namespace info? Yeah that looks like the easiest fix and sounds
> > > quite reasonable.
> > >
> > 
> > Nope. The problem here is not a namespace, but root path:
> > mount point + dentry.
> > do_execve() uses root path from current for search for any string path.
> > And this root path is inherited from the kernel thread. Which means,
> > that this is global "init" root path.
> > Thus, if is we want to search for path in a container (which could
> > have it's own nested root), we have to swap the root in usermode
> > helper thread before do_execve() call.
> > We can use call_usermodehelper_fns() to pass init callback and swap root 
> > in it.
> > But the problem here is that root swaping is not that... gentle.
> > I.e. we were trying to avoid it. For example, local SUNRPC transports
> > now connects synchronously (to make sure, that connection will be done in
> > proper root environment).
> > Nevertheless, I don't see any other way to containerize UMH so far.
> > 
> > Bruce, what's your opinion about this?
> > 
> > 
> 
> It doesn't seem all that awful here. Once we've spawned this new
> process it'll just run to completion and exit within the container. We
> shouldn't ever need to go back to the original root.
> 
> In the sunrpc layer, it's a little more complicated since you're
> working with kernel threads and workqueues that may be shared between
> containers (right?).

Also, is this really the only place that needs this?

I guess NFS for now allows mounts only in the initial namespace, so the
idmap upcalls can always be done there.  Module lookup and any usermode
helpers used for hardware setup probably also only happen in the initial
namespace.  Hrm.  Still, seems likely to be useful to someone
eventually.

--b.