Re: NFS oops in 2.6.26rc4

[Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>]

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Hi Dave,

Any chance you could give the attached patch a whirl to see if it fixes
the NFS oops you reported?

Cheers
  Trond
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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com
www.netapp.com

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From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Subject: NFS: Reduce the NFS mount code stack usage.
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:20:11 -0400
Message-ID: <1214235616.7205.18.camel@localhost>

This appears to fix the Oops reported in
  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10826

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
---

 fs/nfs/super.c |   68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
 1 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/super.c b/fs/nfs/super.c
index 2a4a024..dac663d 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/super.c
@@ -1216,8 +1216,6 @@ static int nfs_validate_mount_data(void *options,
 {
 	struct nfs_mount_data *data = (struct nfs_mount_data *)options;
 
-	memset(args, 0, sizeof(*args));
-
 	if (data == NULL)
 		goto out_no_data;
 
@@ -1585,24 +1583,29 @@ static int nfs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 {
 	struct nfs_server *server = NULL;
 	struct super_block *s;
-	struct nfs_fh mntfh;
-	struct nfs_parsed_mount_data data;
+	struct nfs_parsed_mount_data *data;
+	struct nfs_fh *mntfh;
 	struct dentry *mntroot;
 	int (*compare_super)(struct super_block *, void *) = nfs_compare_super;
 	struct nfs_sb_mountdata sb_mntdata = {
 		.mntflags = flags,
 	};
-	int error;
+	int error = -ENOMEM;
 
-	security_init_mnt_opts(&data.lsm_opts);
+	data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
+	mntfh = kzalloc(sizeof(*mntfh), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (data == NULL || mntfh == NULL)
+		goto out_free_fh;
+
+	security_init_mnt_opts(&data->lsm_opts);
 
 	/* Validate the mount data */
-	error = nfs_validate_mount_data(raw_data, &data, &mntfh, dev_name);
+	error = nfs_validate_mount_data(raw_data, data, mntfh, dev_name);
 	if (error < 0)
 		goto out;
 
 	/* Get a volume representation */
-	server = nfs_create_server(&data, &mntfh);
+	server = nfs_create_server(data, mntfh);
 	if (IS_ERR(server)) {
 		error = PTR_ERR(server);
 		goto out;
@@ -1630,16 +1633,16 @@ static int nfs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 
 	if (!s->s_root) {
 		/* initial superblock/root creation */
-		nfs_fill_super(s, &data);
+		nfs_fill_super(s, data);
 	}
 
-	mntroot = nfs_get_root(s, &mntfh);
+	mntroot = nfs_get_root(s, mntfh);
 	if (IS_ERR(mntroot)) {
 		error = PTR_ERR(mntroot);
 		goto error_splat_super;
 	}
 
-	error = security_sb_set_mnt_opts(s, &data.lsm_opts);
+	error = security_sb_set_mnt_opts(s, &data->lsm_opts);
 	if (error)
 		goto error_splat_root;
 
@@ -1649,9 +1652,12 @@ static int nfs_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 	error = 0;
 
 out:
-	kfree(data.nfs_server.hostname);
-	kfree(data.mount_server.hostname);
-	security_free_mnt_opts(&data.lsm_opts);
+	kfree(data->nfs_server.hostname);
+	kfree(data->mount_server.hostname);
+	security_free_mnt_opts(&data->lsm_opts);
+out_free_fh:
+	kfree(mntfh);
+	kfree(data);
 	return error;
 
 out_err_nosb:
@@ -1800,8 +1806,6 @@ static int nfs4_validate_mount_data(void *options,
 	struct nfs4_mount_data *data = (struct nfs4_mount_data *)options;
 	char *c;
 
-	memset(args, 0, sizeof(*args));
-
 	if (data == NULL)
 		goto out_no_data;
 
@@ -1959,26 +1963,31 @@ out_no_client_address:
 static int nfs4_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 	int flags, const char *dev_name, void *raw_data, struct vfsmount *mnt)
 {
-	struct nfs_parsed_mount_data data;
+	struct nfs_parsed_mount_data *data;
 	struct super_block *s;
 	struct nfs_server *server;
-	struct nfs_fh mntfh;
+	struct nfs_fh *mntfh;
 	struct dentry *mntroot;
 	int (*compare_super)(struct super_block *, void *) = nfs_compare_super;
 	struct nfs_sb_mountdata sb_mntdata = {
 		.mntflags = flags,
 	};
-	int error;
+	int error = -ENOMEM;
 
-	security_init_mnt_opts(&data.lsm_opts);
+	data = kzalloc(sizeof(*data), GFP_KERNEL);
+	mntfh = kzalloc(sizeof(*mntfh), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (data == NULL || mntfh == NULL)
+		goto out_free_fh;
+
+	security_init_mnt_opts(&data->lsm_opts);
 
 	/* Validate the mount data */
-	error = nfs4_validate_mount_data(raw_data, &data, dev_name);
+	error = nfs4_validate_mount_data(raw_data, data, dev_name);
 	if (error < 0)
 		goto out;
 
 	/* Get a volume representation */
-	server = nfs4_create_server(&data, &mntfh);
+	server = nfs4_create_server(data, mntfh);
 	if (IS_ERR(server)) {
 		error = PTR_ERR(server);
 		goto out;
@@ -2009,13 +2018,13 @@ static int nfs4_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 		nfs4_fill_super(s);
 	}
 
-	mntroot = nfs4_get_root(s, &mntfh);
+	mntroot = nfs4_get_root(s, mntfh);
 	if (IS_ERR(mntroot)) {
 		error = PTR_ERR(mntroot);
 		goto error_splat_super;
 	}
 
-	error = security_sb_set_mnt_opts(s, &data.lsm_opts);
+	error = security_sb_set_mnt_opts(s, &data->lsm_opts);
 	if (error)
 		goto error_splat_root;
 
@@ -2025,10 +2034,13 @@ static int nfs4_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 	error = 0;
 
 out:
-	kfree(data.client_address);
-	kfree(data.nfs_server.export_path);
-	kfree(data.nfs_server.hostname);
-	security_free_mnt_opts(&data.lsm_opts);
+	kfree(data->client_address);
+	kfree(data->nfs_server.export_path);
+	kfree(data->nfs_server.hostname);
+	security_free_mnt_opts(&data->lsm_opts);
+out_free_fh:
+	kfree(mntfh);
+	kfree(data);
 	return error;
 
 out_free: