Re: [Question]nfs: never returned delegation

Li Lingfeng
2025-09-01T14:12:17Z

Hi,

在 2025/9/1 19:40, Jeff Layton 写道:
> On Mon, 2025-09-01 at 17:07 +0800, Li Lingfeng wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 在 2025/8/11 21:03, Trond Myklebust 写道:
>>> On Mon, 2025-08-11 at 20:48 +0800, zhangjian (CG) wrote:
>>>> Recently, we meet a NFS problem in 5.10. There are so many
>>>> test_state_id request after a non-privilaged request in tcpdump
>>>> result. There are 40w+ delegations in client (I read the delegation
>>>> list from /proc/kcore).
>>>> Firstly, I think state manager cost a lot in
>>>> nfs_server_reap_expired_delegations. But I see they are all in
>>>> NFS_DELEGATION_REVOKED state except 6 in NFS_DELEGATION_REFERENCED (I
>>>> read this from /proc/kcore too).
>>>> I analyze NFS code and find if NFSPROC4_CLNT_DELEGRETURN procedure
>>>> meet ETIMEOUT, delegation will be marked as NFS4ERR_DELEG_REVOKED and
>>>> never return it again. NFS server will keep the revoked delegation in
>>>> clp->cl_revoked forever. This will result in following sequence
>>>> response with RECALLABLE_STATE_REVOKED flag. Client will send
>>>> test_state_id request for all non-revoked delegation.
>>>> This can only be solved by restarting NFS server.
>>>> I think ETIMEOUT in NFSPROC4_CLNT_DELEGRETURN procedure may be not
>>>> the only case that cause lots of non-terminable test_state_id
>>>> requests after any non-privilaged request.
>>>> Wish NFS experts give some advices on this problem.
>>>>
>>> You have the following options:
>>>
>>> 1. Don't ever use "soft" or "softerr" on the NFS client.
>>> 2. Reboot your server every now and again.
>>> 3. Change the server code to not bother caching revoked state. Doing
>>> so is rather pointless, since there is nothing a client can do
>>> differently when presented with NFS4ERR_DELEG_REVOKED vs.
>>> NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID.
>>> 4. Change the server code to garbage collect revoked stateids after
>>> a while.
>>>
>> I found that a server-side bug could also cause such behavior, and I've
>> reproduced the issue based on the master (commit b320789d6883).
>> nfs4_laundromat                       nfsd4_delegreturn
> I think you may be right about the race. The details are a little off
> though. The important bit here is that the laundromat also calls this
> unhash_delegation_locked before doing the list_add/del.
>>  list_add // add dp to reaplist
>>           // by dl_recall_lru
>>  list_del_init // delete dp from
>>                // reaplist
>>                                        destroy_delegation
>>                                         unhash_delegation_locked
> ...which _should_ make the above unhash_delegation_locked return false,
> so that list_del_init never happens.
Thank you for your correction. The delegreturn indeed does not perform
list_del_init in such concurrent scenarios.
>
>>                                          list_del_init
>>                                          // dp was not added to any list
>>                                          // via dl_recall_lru
>>  revoke_delegation
>>  list_add // add dp to cl_revoked
>>           // by dl_recall_lru
>>
>> The delegation will be left in cl_revoked.
>>
>> I agree with Trond's suggestion to change the server code to fix it.
>>
>>
> ...but there is at least one variation on what you wrote above where it
> could get stuck back on the cl_revoked list after the delegreturn. The
> delegreturn does set the SC_STATUS_CLOSED bit on the stateid, so
> something like this (untested) patch, perhaps?
However, as you noted, since laundromat calls unhash_delegation_locked
first, I think the delegreturn will skip setting SC_STATUS_CLOSED due to
delegation_hashed returning false in unhash_delegation_locked.
>
> ------------8<----------
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> index d2d5e8e397a4..e594ded49e60 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> @@ -1506,7 +1506,7 @@ static void revoke_delegation(struct nfs4_delegation *dp)
> trace_nfsd_stid_revoke(&dp->dl_stid);
>
> spin_lock(&clp->cl_lock);
> - if (dp->dl_stid.sc_status & SC_STATUS_FREED) {
> + if (dp->dl_stid.sc_status & (SC_STATUS_FREED | SC_STATUS_CLOSED)) {
> list_del_init(&dp->dl_recall_lru);
> goto out;
> }
>
Thanks,
Lingfeng