Patch "rpc: share one xps between all backchannels" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    rpc: share one xps between all backchannels

to the 4.6-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     rpc-share-one-xps-between-all-backchannels.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 39a9beab5acb83176e8b9a4f0778749a09341f1f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 12:38:21 -0400
Subject: rpc: share one xps between all backchannels

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>

commit 39a9beab5acb83176e8b9a4f0778749a09341f1f upstream.

The spec allows backchannels for multiple clients to share the same tcp
connection.  When that happens, we need to use the same xprt for all of
them.  Similarly, we need the same xps.

This fixes list corruption introduced by the multipath code.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trondmy@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h |    1 +
 include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h     |    1 +
 net/sunrpc/clnt.c               |   18 ++++++++++++++----
 net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c           |    2 ++
 net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c           |    1 +
 5 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/svc_xprt.h
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ struct svc_xprt {
 
 	struct net		*xpt_net;
 	struct rpc_xprt		*xpt_bc_xprt;	/* NFSv4.1 backchannel */
+	struct rpc_xprt_switch	*xpt_bc_xps;	/* NFSv4.1 backchannel */
 };
 
 static inline void unregister_xpt_user(struct svc_xprt *xpt, struct svc_xpt_user *u)
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xprt.h
@@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ struct xprt_create {
 	size_t			addrlen;
 	const char		*servername;
 	struct svc_xprt		*bc_xprt;	/* NFSv4.1 backchannel */
+	struct rpc_xprt_switch	*bc_xps;
 	unsigned int		flags;
 };
 
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -452,10 +452,20 @@ static struct rpc_clnt *rpc_create_xprt(
 	struct rpc_clnt *clnt = NULL;
 	struct rpc_xprt_switch *xps;
 
-	xps = xprt_switch_alloc(xprt, GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (xps == NULL) {
-		xprt_put(xprt);
-		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+	if (args->bc_xprt && args->bc_xprt->xpt_bc_xps) {
+		WARN_ON(args->protocol != XPRT_TRANSPORT_BC_TCP);
+		xps = args->bc_xprt->xpt_bc_xps;
+		xprt_switch_get(xps);
+	} else {
+		xps = xprt_switch_alloc(xprt, GFP_KERNEL);
+		if (xps == NULL) {
+			xprt_put(xprt);
+			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+		}
+		if (xprt->bc_xprt) {
+			xprt_switch_get(xps);
+			xprt->bc_xprt->xpt_bc_xps = xps;
+		}
 	}
 	clnt = rpc_new_client(args, xps, xprt, NULL);
 	if (IS_ERR(clnt))
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc_xprt.c
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ static void svc_xprt_free(struct kref *k
 	/* See comment on corresponding get in xs_setup_bc_tcp(): */
 	if (xprt->xpt_bc_xprt)
 		xprt_put(xprt->xpt_bc_xprt);
+	if (xprt->xpt_bc_xps)
+		xprt_switch_put(xprt->xpt_bc_xps);
 	xprt->xpt_ops->xpo_free(xprt);
 	module_put(owner);
 }
--- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
@@ -3050,6 +3050,7 @@ static struct rpc_xprt *xs_setup_bc_tcp(
 		return xprt;
 
 	args->bc_xprt->xpt_bc_xprt = NULL;
+	args->bc_xprt->xpt_bc_xps = NULL;
 	xprt_put(xprt);
 	ret = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 out_err:


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bfields@redhat.com are

queue-4.6/nfsd-check-permissions-when-setting-acls.patch
queue-4.6/nfsd-always-lock-state-exclusively.patch
queue-4.6/rpc-share-one-xps-between-all-backchannels.patch
queue-4.6/nfsd-extend-the-mutex-holding-region-around-in-nfsd4_process_open2.patch
queue-4.6/nfsd4-rpc-move-backchannel-create-logic-into-rpc-code.patch
queue-4.6/sunrpc-fix-xprt-leak-on-xps-allocation-failure.patch