[PATCH 6.12 117/567] nfsd: rename nfsd_serv_ prefixed methods and variables with nfsd_net_

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-01-06T17:20:40Z

From: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit b33f7dec3a67216123312c7bb752b8f6faa1c465 ]

Also update Documentation/filesystems/nfs/localio.rst accordingly
and reduce the technical documentation debt that was previously
captured in that document.

Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@oracle.com>
Stable-dep-of: df8d829bba3a ("nfsd: fix memory leak in nfsd_create_serv error paths")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/filesystems/nfs/localio.rst | 85 +++++++----------------
fs/nfs_common/nfslocalio.c | 10 ++-
fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 2 +-
fs/nfsd/localio.c | 4 +-
fs/nfsd/netns.h | 11 +--
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c | 34 ++++-----
include/linux/nfslocalio.h | 12 ++--
7 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/localio.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/localio.rst
index 20fc901a08f4..7d2dbf75e96d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/localio.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/localio.rst
@@ -218,64 +218,30 @@ NFS Client and Server Interlock
===============================

LOCALIO provides the nfs_uuid_t object and associated interfaces to
-allow proper network namespace (net-ns) and NFSD object refcounting:
-
- We don't want to keep a long-term counted reference on each NFSD's
- net-ns in the client because that prevents a server container from
- completely shutting down.
-
- So we avoid taking a reference at all and rely on the per-cpu
- reference to the server (detailed below) being sufficient to keep
- the net-ns active. This involves allowing the NFSD's net-ns exit
- code to iterate all active clients and clear their ->net pointers
- (which are needed to find the per-cpu-refcount for the nfsd_serv).
-
- Details:
-
- - Embed nfs_uuid_t in nfs_client. nfs_uuid_t provides a list_head
- that can be used to find the client. It does add the 16-byte
- uuid_t to nfs_client so it is bigger than needed (given that
- uuid_t is only used during the initial NFS client and server
- LOCALIO handshake to determine if they are local to each other).
- If that is really a problem we can find a fix.
-
- - When the nfs server confirms that the uuid_t is local, it moves
- the nfs_uuid_t onto a per-net-ns list in NFSD's nfsd_net.
-
- - When each server's net-ns is shutting down - in a "pre_exit"
- handler, all these nfs_uuid_t have their ->net cleared. There is
- an rcu_synchronize() call between pre_exit() handlers and exit()
- handlers so any caller that sees nfs_uuid_t ->net as not NULL can
- safely manage the per-cpu-refcount for nfsd_serv.
-
- - The client's nfs_uuid_t is passed to nfsd_open_local_fh() so it
- can safely dereference ->net in a private rcu_read_lock() section
- to allow safe access to the associated nfsd_net and nfsd_serv.
-
-So LOCALIO required the introduction and use of NFSD's percpu_ref to
-interlock nfsd_destroy_serv() and nfsd_open_local_fh(), to ensure each
-nn->nfsd_serv is not destroyed while in use by nfsd_open_local_fh(), and
+allow proper network namespace (net-ns) and NFSD object refcounting.
+
+LOCALIO required the introduction and use of NFSD's percpu nfsd_net_ref
+to interlock nfsd_shutdown_net() and nfsd_open_local_fh(), to ensure
+each net-ns is not destroyed while in use by nfsd_open_local_fh(), and
warrants a more detailed explanation:

- nfsd_open_local_fh() uses nfsd_serv_try_get() before opening its
+ nfsd_open_local_fh() uses nfsd_net_try_get() before opening its
nfsd_file handle and then the caller (NFS client) must drop the
- reference for the nfsd_file and associated nn->nfsd_serv using
- nfs_file_put_local() once it has completed its IO.
+ reference for the nfsd_file and associated net-ns using
+ nfsd_file_put_local() once it has completed its IO.

This interlock working relies heavily on nfsd_open_local_fh() being
afforded the ability to safely deal with the possibility that the
NFSD's net-ns (and nfsd_net by association) may have been destroyed
- by nfsd_destroy_serv() via nfsd_shutdown_net() -- which is only
- possible given the nfs_uuid_t ->net pointer managemenet detailed
- above.
-
-All told, this elaborate interlock of the NFS client and server has been
-verified to fix an easy to hit crash that would occur if an NFSD
-instance running in a container, with a LOCALIO client mounted, is
-shutdown. Upon restart of the container and associated NFSD the client
-would go on to crash due to NULL pointer dereference that occurred due
-to the LOCALIO client's attempting to nfsd_open_local_fh(), using
-nn->nfsd_serv, without having a proper reference on nn->nfsd_serv.
+ by nfsd_destroy_serv() via nfsd_shutdown_net().
+
+This interlock of the NFS client and server has been verified to fix an
+easy to hit crash that would occur if an NFSD instance running in a
+container, with a LOCALIO client mounted, is shutdown. Upon restart of
+the container and associated NFSD, the client would go on to crash due
+to NULL pointer dereference that occurred due to the LOCALIO client's
+attempting to nfsd_open_local_fh() without having a proper reference on
+NFSD's net-ns.

NFS Client issues IO instead of Server
======================================
@@ -308,16 +274,19 @@ fs/nfs/localio.c:nfs_local_commit().

With normal NFS that makes use of RPC to issue IO to the server, if an
application uses O_DIRECT the NFS client will bypass the pagecache but
-the NFS server will not. Because the NFS server's use of buffered IO
-affords applications to be less precise with their alignment when
-issuing IO to the NFS client. LOCALIO can be configured to use O_DIRECT
-semantics by setting the 'localio_O_DIRECT_semantics' nfs module
+the NFS server will not. The NFS server's use of buffered IO affords
+applications to be less precise with their alignment when issuing IO to
+the NFS client. But if all applications properly align their IO, LOCALIO
+can be configured to use end-to-end O_DIRECT semantics from the NFS
+client to the underlying local filesystem, that it is sharing with
+the NFS server, by setting the 'localio_O_DIRECT_semantics' nfs module
parameter to Y, e.g.:

- echo Y > /sys/module/nfs/parameters/localio_O_DIRECT_semantics
+ echo Y > /sys/module/nfs/parameters/localio_O_DIRECT_semantics

-Once enabled, it will cause LOCALIO to use O_DIRECT semantics (this may
-cause IO to fail if applications do not properly align their IO).
+Once enabled, it will cause LOCALIO to use end-to-end O_DIRECT semantics
+(but again, this may cause IO to fail if applications do not properly
+align their IO).

Security
========
diff --git a/fs/nfs_common/nfslocalio.c b/fs/nfs_common/nfslocalio.c
index a74ec08f6c96..e6fbc45ec4f1 100644
--- a/fs/nfs_common/nfslocalio.c
+++ b/fs/nfs_common/nfslocalio.c
@@ -128,6 +128,10 @@ void nfs_uuid_invalidate_one_client(nfs_uuid_t *nfs_uuid)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_uuid_invalidate_one_client);

+/*
+ * Caller is responsible for calling nfsd_net_put and
+ * nfsd_file_put (via nfs_to_nfsd_file_put_local).
+ */
struct nfsd_file *nfs_open_local_fh(nfs_uuid_t *uuid,
struct rpc_clnt *rpc_clnt, const struct cred *cred,
const struct nfs_fh *nfs_fh, const fmode_t fmode)
@@ -139,7 +143,7 @@ struct nfsd_file *nfs_open_local_fh(nfs_uuid_t *uuid,
* Not running in nfsd context, so must safely get reference on nfsd_serv.
* But the server may already be shutting down, if so disallow new localio.
* uuid->net is NOT a counted reference, but rcu_read_lock() ensures that
- * if uuid->net is not NULL, then calling nfsd_serv_try_get() is safe
+ * if uuid->net is not NULL, then calling nfsd_net_try_get() is safe
* and if it succeeds we will have an implied reference to the net.
*
* Otherwise NFS may not have ref on NFSD and therefore cannot safely
@@ -147,12 +151,12 @@ struct nfsd_file *nfs_open_local_fh(nfs_uuid_t *uuid,
*/
rcu_read_lock();
net = rcu_dereference(uuid->net);
- if (!net || !nfs_to->nfsd_serv_try_get(net)) {
+ if (!net || !nfs_to->nfsd_net_try_get(net)) {
rcu_read_unlock();
return ERR_PTR(-ENXIO);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
- /* We have an implied reference to net thanks to nfsd_serv_try_get */
+ /* We have an implied reference to net thanks to nfsd_net_try_get */
localio = nfs_to->nfsd_open_local_fh(net, uuid->dom, rpc_clnt,
cred, nfs_fh, fmode);
if (IS_ERR(localio))
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
index d19968881855..05f0a4867673 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ nfsd_file_put(struct nfsd_file *nf)
}

/**
- * nfsd_file_put_local - put nfsd_file reference and arm nfsd_serv_put in caller
+ * nfsd_file_put_local - put nfsd_file reference and arm nfsd_net_put in caller
* @nf: nfsd_file of which to put the reference
*
* First save the associated net to return to caller, then put
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/localio.c b/fs/nfsd/localio.c
index f441cb9f74d5..ce6d408598c7 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/localio.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/localio.c
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
#include "cache.h"

static const struct nfsd_localio_operations nfsd_localio_ops = {
- .nfsd_serv_try_get = nfsd_serv_try_get,
- .nfsd_serv_put = nfsd_serv_put,
+ .nfsd_net_try_get = nfsd_net_try_get,
+ .nfsd_net_put = nfsd_net_put,
.nfsd_open_local_fh = nfsd_open_local_fh,
.nfsd_file_put_local = nfsd_file_put_local,
.nfsd_file_file = nfsd_file_file,
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/netns.h b/fs/nfsd/netns.h
index a05a45bb1978..ceab4a3e503f 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/netns.h
+++ b/fs/nfsd/netns.h
@@ -140,9 +140,10 @@ struct nfsd_net {

struct svc_info nfsd_info;
#define nfsd_serv nfsd_info.serv
- struct percpu_ref nfsd_serv_ref;
- struct completion nfsd_serv_confirm_done;
- struct completion nfsd_serv_free_done;
+
+ struct percpu_ref nfsd_net_ref;
+ struct completion nfsd_net_confirm_done;
+ struct completion nfsd_net_free_done;

/*
* clientid and stateid data for construction of net unique COPY
@@ -229,8 +230,8 @@ struct nfsd_net {
extern bool nfsd_support_version(int vers);
extern unsigned int nfsd_net_id;

-bool nfsd_serv_try_get(struct net *net);
-void nfsd_serv_put(struct net *net);
+bool nfsd_net_try_get(struct net *net);
+void nfsd_net_put(struct net *net);

void nfsd_copy_write_verifier(__be32 verf[2], struct nfsd_net *nn);
void nfsd_reset_write_verifier(struct nfsd_net *nn);
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
index f9bb408478dc..571a6ae90833 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
@@ -214,32 +214,32 @@ int nfsd_minorversion(struct nfsd_net *nn, u32 minorversion, enum vers_op change
return 0;
}

-bool nfsd_serv_try_get(struct net *net) __must_hold(rcu)
+bool nfsd_net_try_get(struct net *net) __must_hold(rcu)
{
struct nfsd_net *nn = net_generic(net, nfsd_net_id);

- return (nn && percpu_ref_tryget_live(&nn->nfsd_serv_ref));
+ return (nn && percpu_ref_tryget_live(&nn->nfsd_net_ref));
}

-void nfsd_serv_put(struct net *net) __must_hold(rcu)
+void nfsd_net_put(struct net *net) __must_hold(rcu)
{
struct nfsd_net *nn = net_generic(net, nfsd_net_id);

- percpu_ref_put(&nn->nfsd_serv_ref);
+ percpu_ref_put(&nn->nfsd_net_ref);
}

-static void nfsd_serv_done(struct percpu_ref *ref)
+static void nfsd_net_done(struct percpu_ref *ref)
{
- struct nfsd_net *nn = container_of(ref, struct nfsd_net, nfsd_serv_ref);
+ struct nfsd_net *nn = container_of(ref, struct nfsd_net, nfsd_net_ref);

- complete(&nn->nfsd_serv_confirm_done);
+ complete(&nn->nfsd_net_confirm_done);
}

-static void nfsd_serv_free(struct percpu_ref *ref)
+static void nfsd_net_free(struct percpu_ref *ref)
{
- struct nfsd_net *nn = container_of(ref, struct nfsd_net, nfsd_serv_ref);
+ struct nfsd_net *nn = container_of(ref, struct nfsd_net, nfsd_net_ref);

- complete(&nn->nfsd_serv_free_done);
+ complete(&nn->nfsd_net_free_done);
}

/*
@@ -437,8 +437,8 @@ static void nfsd_shutdown_net(struct net *net)
if (!nn->nfsd_net_up)
return;

- percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm(&nn->nfsd_serv_ref, nfsd_serv_done);
- wait_for_completion(&nn->nfsd_serv_confirm_done);
+ percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm(&nn->nfsd_net_ref, nfsd_net_done);
+ wait_for_completion(&nn->nfsd_net_confirm_done);

nfsd_export_flush(net);
nfs4_state_shutdown_net(net);
@@ -449,8 +449,8 @@ static void nfsd_shutdown_net(struct net *net)
nn->lockd_up = false;
}

- wait_for_completion(&nn->nfsd_serv_free_done);
- percpu_ref_exit(&nn->nfsd_serv_ref);
+ wait_for_completion(&nn->nfsd_net_free_done);
+ percpu_ref_exit(&nn->nfsd_net_ref);

nn->nfsd_net_up = false;
nfsd_shutdown_generic();
@@ -654,12 +654,12 @@ int nfsd_create_serv(struct net *net)
if (nn->nfsd_serv)
return 0;

- error = percpu_ref_init(&nn->nfsd_serv_ref, nfsd_serv_free,
+ error = percpu_ref_init(&nn->nfsd_net_ref, nfsd_net_free,
0, GFP_KERNEL);
if (error)
return error;
- init_completion(&nn->nfsd_serv_free_done);
- init_completion(&nn->nfsd_serv_confirm_done);
+ init_completion(&nn->nfsd_net_free_done);
+ init_completion(&nn->nfsd_net_confirm_done);

if (nfsd_max_blksize == 0)
nfsd_max_blksize = nfsd_get_default_max_blksize();
diff --git a/include/linux/nfslocalio.h b/include/linux/nfslocalio.h
index 9202f4b24343..e1b8018ba639 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfslocalio.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfslocalio.h
@@ -47,8 +47,8 @@ nfsd_open_local_fh(struct net *, struct auth_domain *, struct rpc_clnt *,
const fmode_t) __must_hold(rcu);

struct nfsd_localio_operations {
- bool (*nfsd_serv_try_get)(struct net *);
- void (*nfsd_serv_put)(struct net *);
+ bool (*nfsd_net_try_get)(struct net *);
+ void (*nfsd_net_put)(struct net *);
struct nfsd_file *(*nfsd_open_local_fh)(struct net *,
struct auth_domain *,
struct rpc_clnt *,
@@ -69,12 +69,12 @@ struct nfsd_file *nfs_open_local_fh(nfs_uuid_t *,
static inline void nfs_to_nfsd_net_put(struct net *net)
{
/*
- * Once reference to nfsd_serv is dropped, NFSD could be
- * unloaded, so ensure safe return from nfsd_file_put_local()
- * by always taking RCU.
+ * Once reference to net (and associated nfsd_serv) is dropped, NFSD
+ * could be unloaded, so ensure safe return from nfsd_net_put() by
+ * always taking RCU.
*/
rcu_read_lock();
- nfs_to->nfsd_serv_put(net);
+ nfs_to->nfsd_net_put(net);
rcu_read_unlock();
}

--
2.51.0