Re: [PATCH] nfsd: fix incorrect high limit in clamp() on over-allocation

Geert Uytterhoeven
2024-12-23T16:07:07Z

Hi Chuck,

On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 3:48 PM Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 12/9/24 7:25 AM, Vincent Mailhol via B4 Relay wrote:
> > From: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
> >
> > If over allocation occurs in nfsd4_get_drc_mem(), total_avail is set
> > to zero. Consequently,
> >
> > clamp_t(unsigned long, avail, slotsize, total_avail/scale_factor);
> >
> > gives:
> >
> > clamp_t(unsigned long, avail, slotsize, 0);
> >
> > resulting in a clamp() call where the high limit is smaller than the
> > low limit, which is undefined: the result could be either slotsize or
> > zero depending on the order of evaluation.
> >
> > Luckily, the two instructions just below the clamp() recover the
> > undefined behaviour:
> >
> > num = min_t(int, num, avail / slotsize);
> > num = max_t(int, num, 1);
> >
> > If avail = slotsize, the min_t() sets it back to 1. If avail = 0, the
> > max_t() sets it back to 1.
> >
> > So this undefined behaviour has no visible effect.
> >
> > Anyway, remove the undefined behaviour in clamp() by only calling it
> > and only doing the calculation of num if memory is still available.
> > Otherwise, if over-allocation occurred, directly set num to 1 as
> > intended by the author.
> >
> > While at it, apply below checkpatch fix:
> >
> > WARNING: min() should probably be min_t(unsigned long, NFSD_MAX_MEM_PER_SESSION, total_avail)
> > #100: FILE: fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:1954:
> > + avail = min((unsigned long)NFSD_MAX_MEM_PER_SESSION, total_avail);
> >
> > Fixes: 7f49fd5d7acd ("nfsd: handle drc over-allocation gracefully.")
> > Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
> > ---
> > Found by applying below patch from David:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/all/34d53778977747f19cce2abb287bb3e6@AcuMS.aculab.com/
> >
> > Doing so yield this report:
> >
> > In function ‘nfsd4_get_drc_mem’,
> > inlined from ‘check_forechannel_attrs’ at fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:3791:16,
> > inlined from ‘nfsd4_create_session’ at fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:3864:11:
> > ././include/linux/compiler_types.h:542:38: error: call to ‘__compiletime_assert_3707’ declared with attribute error: clamp() low limit (unsigned long)(slotsize) greater than high limit (unsigned long)(total_avail/scale_factor)
> > 542 | _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
> > | ^
> > ././include/linux/compiler_types.h:523:4: note: in definition of macro ‘__compiletime_assert’
> > 523 | prefix ## suffix(); \
> > | ^~~~~~
> > ././include/linux/compiler_types.h:542:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘_compiletime_assert’
> > 542 | _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ./include/linux/build_bug.h:39:37: note: in expansion of macro ‘compiletime_assert’
> > 39 | #define BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(cond, msg) compiletime_assert(!(cond), msg)
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ./include/linux/minmax.h:114:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG’
> > 114 | BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG(statically_true(ulo > uhi), \
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ./include/linux/minmax.h:121:2: note: in expansion of macro ‘__clamp_once’
> > 121 | __clamp_once(val, lo, hi, __UNIQUE_ID(v_), __UNIQUE_ID(l_), __UNIQUE_ID(h_))
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> > ./include/linux/minmax.h:275:36: note: in expansion of macro ‘__careful_clamp’
> > 275 | #define clamp_t(type, val, lo, hi) __careful_clamp((type)(val), (type)(lo), (type)(hi))
> > | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c:1972:10: note: in expansion of macro ‘clamp_t’
> > 1972 | avail = clamp_t(unsigned long, avail, slotsize,
> > | ^~~~~~~
> >
> > Because David's patch is targetting Andrew's mm tree, I would suggest
> > that my patch also goes to that tree.
> > ---
> > fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> > 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> > index 741b9449f727defc794347f1b116c955d715e691..eb91460c434e30f6df70f66d937f8c0f334b8e1b 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> > @@ -1944,35 +1944,39 @@ static u32 nfsd4_get_drc_mem(struct nfsd4_channel_attrs *ca, struct nfsd_net *nn
> > {
> > u32 slotsize = slot_bytes(ca);
> > u32 num = ca->maxreqs;
> > - unsigned long avail, total_avail;
> > - unsigned int scale_factor;
> >
> > spin_lock(&nfsd_drc_lock);
> > - if (nfsd_drc_max_mem > nfsd_drc_mem_used)
> > + if (nfsd_drc_max_mem > nfsd_drc_mem_used) {
> > + unsigned long avail, total_avail;
> > + unsigned int scale_factor;
> > +
> > total_avail = nfsd_drc_max_mem - nfsd_drc_mem_used;
> > - else
> > + avail = min_t(unsigned long,
> > + NFSD_MAX_MEM_PER_SESSION, total_avail);
> > + /*
> > + * Never use more than a fraction of the remaining memory,
> > + * unless it's the only way to give this client a slot.
> > + * The chosen fraction is either 1/8 or 1/number of threads,
> > + * whichever is smaller. This ensures there are adequate
> > + * slots to support multiple clients per thread.
> > + * Give the client one slot even if that would require
> > + * over-allocation--it is better than failure.
> > + */
> > + scale_factor = max_t(unsigned int,
> > + 8, nn->nfsd_serv->sv_nrthreads);
> > +
> > + avail = clamp_t(unsigned long, avail, slotsize,
> > + total_avail/scale_factor);
> > + num = min_t(int, num, avail / slotsize);
> > + num = max_t(int, num, 1);
> > + } else {
> > /* We have handed out more space than we chose in
> > * set_max_drc() to allow. That isn't really a
> > * problem as long as that doesn't make us think we
> > * have lots more due to integer overflow.
> > */
> > - total_avail = 0;
> > - avail = min((unsigned long)NFSD_MAX_MEM_PER_SESSION, total_avail);
> > - /*
> > - * Never use more than a fraction of the remaining memory,
> > - * unless it's the only way to give this client a slot.
> > - * The chosen fraction is either 1/8 or 1/number of threads,
> > - * whichever is smaller. This ensures there are adequate
> > - * slots to support multiple clients per thread.
> > - * Give the client one slot even if that would require
> > - * over-allocation--it is better than failure.
> > - */
> > - scale_factor = max_t(unsigned int, 8, nn->nfsd_serv->sv_nrthreads);
> > -
> > - avail = clamp_t(unsigned long, avail, slotsize,
> > - total_avail/scale_factor);
> > - num = min_t(int, num, avail / slotsize);
> > - num = max_t(int, num, 1);
> > + num = 1;
> > + }
> > nfsd_drc_mem_used += num * slotsize;
> > spin_unlock(&nfsd_drc_lock);
> >
> >
> > ---
> > base-commit: fac04efc5c793dccbd07e2d59af9f90b7fc0dca4
> > change-id: 20241209-nfs4state_fix-bc6f1c1fc1d1

> We're replacing this code wholesale in 6.14. See:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux.git/commit/?h=nfsd-testing&id=8233f78fbd970cbfcb9f78c719ac5a3aac4ea053

Bad commit reference?

And hence this is still failing in next-20241220...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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