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From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
To: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>, NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>,
	 Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>,
	Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@oracle.com>,  Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trondmy@kernel.org>,
	 Anna Schumaker <anna@kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	 "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	 netdev@vger.kernel.org, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@gmail.com>,
	 linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] NFSD: report listener creation failures through extack
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:38:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260810-nfsd-nl-hang-v1-5-2519fdd5bc1a@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810-nfsd-nl-hang-v1-0-2519fdd5bc1a@kernel.org>

nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit() hands back the raw errno from
svc_xprt_create_from_sa() and sets no extack, so a failed LISTENER_SET
tells userland only "Connection refused". The usual cause is
svc_setup_socket() -> svc_register() failing because the local rpcbind is
not reachable, which is not guessable from the errno alone -- and since
"SUNRPC: keep the first error in svc_register()" that failure is fatal on
CONFIG_NFS_LOCALIO=y too.

Name the transport and the error. The message tracks err, which keeps the
last failure, so a multi-listener request reports the entry whose errno is
returned.

The rejections in nfsd_nl_validate_listeners() other than -E2BIG are still
bare; those are left alone here.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: LLM
---
 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index 66931caaaaed..a6ef85e6b419 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -2184,8 +2184,12 @@ int nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 		ret = svc_xprt_create_from_sa(serv, xcl_name, net, sa, 0,
 					      current_cred());
 		/* always save the latest error */
-		if (ret < 0)
+		if (ret < 0) {
+			NL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT(info->extack,
+					   "cannot create %s listener: %d",
+					   xcl_name, ret);
 			err = ret;
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (!serv->sv_nrthreads && list_empty(&nn->nfsd_serv->sv_permsocks))

-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-10 17:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-10 17:38 [PATCH 0/7] nfsd/sunrpc: harden the netlink listener interfaces Jeff Layton
2026-08-10 17:38 ` [PATCH 1/7] NFSD: validate transport name in listener_set before serv creation Jeff Layton
2026-08-10 17:38 ` [PATCH 2/7] NFSD: cap the number of listeners accepted in listener_set Jeff Layton
2026-08-10 17:38 ` [PATCH 3/7] SUNRPC: keep the first error in svc_register() Jeff Layton
2026-08-10 17:38 ` [PATCH 4/7] SUNRPC: bound the local rpcbind client timeout to 1s Jeff Layton
2026-08-10 17:38 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2026-08-10 17:38 ` [PATCH 6/7] selftests/nfsd: exercise listener_set request validation Jeff Layton
2026-08-10 17:38 ` [PATCH 7/7] selftests/nfsd: add a per-netns rpcbind stub and the listener round-trips Jeff Layton

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