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From: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
To: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>, Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
	Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@redhat.com>,
	Dai Ngo <dai.ngo@oracle.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@talpey.com>
Cc: <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2] nfsd: reset write verifier when async COPY writeback fails
Date: Fri, 22 May 2026 16:37:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260522203723.446841-1-cel@kernel.org> (raw)

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

Async COPY captures nn->writeverf at request time and reports it to
the client via CB_OFFLOAD after the worker kthread completes. When
the post-copy vfs_fsync_range() or filemap_check_wb_err() in
_nfsd_copy_file_range() reports an error, the worker correctly
leaves NFSD4_COPY_F_COMMITTED clear so that CB_OFFLOAD encodes
wr_stable_how as NFS_UNSTABLE, but the server's write verifier is
not rotated.

A client that receives NFS_UNSTABLE in CB_OFFLOAD follows up with
COMMIT to make the copied data durable. With the verifier
unchanged, COMMIT returns the same value the client just received
via CB_OFFLOAD, and the client concludes the copy is durable --
silently dropping the data whose writeback in fact failed. This
violates the UNSTABLE+COMMIT durability contract (RFC 7862 section
15.1, RFC 8881 section 18.32) and matches the bug just fixed in
nfsd_vfs_write() and nfsd_commit().

Rotate nn->writeverf at the writeback-failure site. The async COPY
worker has no svc_rqst, so commit_reset_write_verifier() is not
available here; calling nfsd_reset_write_verifier() directly
mirrors the trace-less reset already used by
nfsd_file_check_write_error() for the same purpose. Filter out
-EAGAIN and -ESTALE, matching commit_reset_write_verifier(), since
neither indicates a durable-storage failure.

Fixes: eac0b17a77fb ("NFSD add vfs_fsync after async copy is done")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: kres:claude-opus-4-7
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
index 8561540ab2db..93fcaf90d6ae 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
@@ -1972,6 +1972,8 @@ static ssize_t _nfsd_copy_file_range(struct nfsd4_copy *copy,
 			status = filemap_check_wb_err(dst->f_mapping, since);
 		if (!status)
 			set_bit(NFSD4_COPY_F_COMMITTED, &copy->cp_flags);
+		else if (status != -EAGAIN && status != -ESTALE)
+			nfsd_reset_write_verifier(copy->cp_nn);
 	}
 	return bytes_copied;
 }
-- 
2.54.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-05-22 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-05-22 20:37 Chuck Lever [this message]
2026-05-22 20:56 ` [PATCH v2] nfsd: reset write verifier when async COPY writeback fails Jeff Layton

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