Re: linux-3.14 nfsd regression

J. Bruce Fields
2014-04-03T21:28:52Z

On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 04:48:11PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> On 14-04-03 03:30 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 01:51:06PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> >> On 14-04-03 01:16 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 12:33:55PM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> >>>> This commit from linux-3.14 breaks our NFS-root clients here:
> >>>>
> >>>> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6e14b46b91fee8a049b0940333ce13a820beaaa5
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> - *p++ = htonl((u32) stat->mode);
> >>>> + *p++ = htonl((u32) (stat->mode & S_IALLUGO));
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Reverting the one-liner above (on the server) fixes it for us,
> >>>> as does reverting back to linux-3.13.8 on the server.
> >>>>
> >>>> The NFS-root clients are on PowerPC (big-endian) architecture,
> >>>> running linux-3.12.16. The NFS server is on an Intel PC running linux-3.14.
> >>>>
> >>>> ACL is completely disabled on server and client,
> >>>> and we're using NFSv2/v3. No support for v4.
> >>>>
> >>>> I instrumented the function to see what other bits were being cleared
> >>>> by the (stat->mode & S_IALLUGO) masking. The results are attached.
> >>>
> >>> Hm, it sounds like a bug in the client if it's depending on those high
> >>> bits.
> >>
> >> But only for mounting / starting up from the nfsroot, it seems.
> >> I wonder if there's an unusual code path for that in there?
> >> The regular stuff looks mostly fine:
> >>
> >> p = xdr_decode_ftype3(p, &fmode);
> >> fattr->mode = (be32_to_cpup(p++) & ~S_IFMT) | fmode;
> >
> > Hm, but that's in nfs3xdr.c; in nfs2xdr.c we have just
> >
> > fattr->mode = be32_to_cpup(p+);
> >
> > and NFSv2 is the default for nfsroot. Do you have some reason to
> > believe you're not using NFSv2?
>
> Oh, the client here was using NFS2, absolutely.
> I just don't know my way around the code very well yet. :)
>
> But that mask in nfs3xdr.c (client) doesn't match what the server side is using.

Not sure there's anything to see there.

Looking at include/uapi/linux/stat.h and include/linux/stat.h, if I'm
doing this right...

S_ISFMT is 0170000
S_IALLUGO is 0007777

So they're 16-bit complements. And we're storing the result in a short?

--b.