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>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Slawomir Stepien <sst@poczta.fm>,
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 v4 10/14] NFSD: stop registering with rpcbind after a failure in listener_set
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:14:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260831-nfsd-nl-hang-v4-10-0f4e89139409@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260831-nfsd-nl-hang-v4-0-0f4e89139409@kernel.org>
nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit() calls svc_xprt_create_from_sa() once for each
requested listener and passes flags of 0, so every listener registers with
rpcbind on its own. A rpcbind that accepts the connection and never replies
therefore costs one timeout for each entry. With the cap of 1024 entries
the request can hold nfsd_mutex for about 34 minutes, which is roughly 17
times the hung-task threshold.
One failure is enough to know that the next call will not fare better.
Read svc_rpcb_failure_count() before the create loop, and pass
SVC_SOCK_ANONYMOUS for the rest of the request once the count moves.
Fixes: 16a471177496 ("NFSD: add listener-{set,get} netlink command")
Assisted-by: LLM
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c7eae0eb80858a2dba0f
Suggested-by: Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
---
fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index 6cbdcee4b733..2256c53277b8 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -2092,7 +2092,9 @@ int nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
const struct nlattr *bad_attr = NULL;
struct svc_xprt *xprt, *tmp;
const char *bad_xprt = NULL;
+ unsigned int rpcb_failures;
const struct nlattr *attr;
+ bool skipped_rpcb = false;
struct svc_serv *serv;
LIST_HEAD(permsocks);
struct nfsd_net *nn;
@@ -2182,13 +2184,15 @@ int nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
if (delete)
svc_xprt_destroy_all(serv, net, false);
+ rpcb_failures = svc_rpcb_failure_count(serv);
+
/* walk list of addrs again, open any that still don't exist */
nlmsg_for_each_attr_type(attr, NFSD_A_SERVER_SOCK_ADDR, info->nlhdr,
GENL_HDRLEN, rem) {
struct nlattr *tb[NFSD_A_SOCK_MAX + 1];
const char *xcl_name;
struct sockaddr *sa;
- int ret;
+ int flags, ret;
/* validated up front in nfsd_nl_validate_listeners() */
if (nla_parse_nested(tb, NFSD_A_SOCK_MAX, attr,
@@ -2207,8 +2211,20 @@ int nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
continue;
}
- ret = svc_xprt_create_from_sa(serv, xcl_name, net, sa, 0,
+ flags = skipped_rpcb ? SVC_SOCK_ANONYMOUS : 0;
+ ret = svc_xprt_create_from_sa(serv, xcl_name, net, sa, flags,
current_cred());
+
+ if (!skipped_rpcb &&
+ svc_rpcb_failure_count(serv) != rpcb_failures) {
+ skipped_rpcb = true;
+ if (ret < 0)
+ ret = svc_xprt_create_from_sa(serv, xcl_name,
+ net, sa,
+ SVC_SOCK_ANONYMOUS,
+ current_cred());
+ }
+
/* always save the latest error */
if (ret < 0) {
bad_attr = attr;
@@ -2224,8 +2240,17 @@ int nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
*/
if (err) {
NL_SET_BAD_ATTR(info->extack, bad_attr);
- NL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT(info->extack, "cannot create %s listener",
- bad_xprt);
+ if (skipped_rpcb)
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT(info->extack,
+ "cannot create %s listener; rpcbind did not answer",
+ bad_xprt);
+ else
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT(info->extack,
+ "cannot create %s listener",
+ bad_xprt);
+ } else if (skipped_rpcb) {
+ NL_SET_ERR_MSG(info->extack,
+ "rpcbind did not answer, some listeners are not registered");
}
if (!serv->sv_nrthreads && list_empty(&nn->nfsd_serv->sv_permsocks))
--
2.55.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-31 16:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-31 16:14 [PATCH v4 00/14] nfsd/sunrpc: harden the netlink listener set interface Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 01/14] NFSD: cap the number of listeners accepted in listener_set Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 02/14] NFSD: validate transport name in listener_set before serv creation Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 03/14] SUNRPC: keep the first error in svc_register() Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 04/14] SUNRPC: bound the local rpcbind client timeout to 1s Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 05/14] NFSD: report listener creation failures through extack Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 06/14] SUNRPC: report local rpcbind calls that get no answer Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 07/14] SUNRPC: stop svc_register() once rpcbind stops answering Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 08/14] SUNRPC: stop the svc_unregister() sweep " Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 09/14] SUNRPC: stop unregistering listeners " Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` Jeff Layton [this message]
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 11/14] selftests/nfsd: exercise listener_set request validation Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 12/14] selftests/nfsd: add a per-netns rpcbind stub and the listener round-trips Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 13/14] selftests/nfsd: check that listener_set asks rpcbind once Jeff Layton
2026-08-31 16:14 ` [PATCH v4 14/14] selftests/nfsd: check that listener removal " Jeff Layton
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