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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>, Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 7.3.y 1/3] NFSD: report listener creation failures through extack
Date: Thu,  5 Nov 2026 20:53:08 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106015251.3618109-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026110423-herself-payroll-200f@gregkh>

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit 8e590a16853fedd2697a3b0c32b3cbf1a444f7b2 ]

nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit() returns the raw errno from
svc_xprt_create_from_sa() and sets no extack. A failed LISTENER_SET
therefore tells userland only "Address already in use", or whatever else
the transport returned. It never tells userland which entry failed.

Record the attribute and the transport name of the entry whose errno the
call returns, and report both after the loop. NL_SET_BAD_ATTR() names the
entry, which the message alone cannot do: a request can carry several
entries with the same transport name.

The rejections in nfsd_nl_validate_listeners() other than -E2BIG and the
unsupported transport name still carry no extack. This patch does not
change them.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260901-nfsd-nl-hang-v5-5-a540d86668b0@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Stable-dep-of: bf0f3a37e6cc ("NFSD: stop registering with rpcbind after a failure in listener_set")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
 fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index 86aa8d202b4b1..714c73ddd9dc1 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
@@ -2086,7 +2086,9 @@ static int nfsd_nl_validate_listeners(struct genl_info *info)
 int nfsd_nl_listener_set_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
 {
 	struct net *net = genl_info_net(info);
+	const struct nlattr *bad_attr = NULL;
 	struct svc_xprt *xprt, *tmp;
+	const char *bad_xprt = NULL;
 	const struct nlattr *attr;
 	struct svc_serv *serv;
 	LIST_HEAD(permsocks);
@@ -2205,8 +2207,22 @@ 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) {
+			bad_attr = attr;
+			bad_xprt = xcl_name;
 			err = ret;
+		}
+	}
+
+	/*
+	 * The ack carries the errno of the last entry that failed. Point at
+	 * that entry as well, since several entries can share a transport
+	 * name and the errno alone cannot tell them apart.
+	 */
+	if (err) {
+		NL_SET_BAD_ATTR(info->extack, bad_attr);
+		NL_SET_ERR_MSG_FMT(info->extack, "cannot create %s listener",
+				   bad_xprt);
 	}
 
 	if (!serv->sv_nrthreads && list_empty(&nn->nfsd_serv->sv_permsocks))
-- 
2.53.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-11-06  1:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-04 18:54 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] NFSD: stop registering with rpcbind after a failure in" failed to apply to 7.3-stable tree gregkh
2026-11-06  1:53 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2026-11-06  1:53   ` [PATCH 7.3.y 2/3] SUNRPC: report local rpcbind calls that get no answer Sasha Levin
2026-11-06  1:53   ` [PATCH 7.3.y 3/3] NFSD: stop registering with rpcbind after a failure in listener_set Sasha Levin

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