From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> The "statp + 1" pointer that is passed to nfsd_cache_update() is supposed to point to the start of the egress NFS Reply header. In fact, it does point there for AUTH_SYS and RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 requests. But both krb5i and krb5p add fields between the RPC header's accept_stat field and the start of the NFS Reply header. In those cases, "statp + 1" points at the extra fields instead of the Reply. The result is that nfsd_cache_update() caches what looks to the client like garbage. A connection break can occur for a number of reasons, but the most common reason when using krb5i/p is a GSS sequence number window underrun. When an underrun is detected, the server is obliged to drop the RPC and the connection to force a retransmit with a fresh GSS sequence number. The client presents the same XID, it hits in the server's DRC, and the server returns the garbage cache entry. The "statp + 1" argument has been used since the oldest changeset in the kernel history repo, so it has been in nfsd_dispatch() literally since before history began. The problem arose only when the server-side GSS implementation was added twenty years ago. This particular patch applies cleanly to v6.5 and later, but needs some context adjustment to apply to earlier kernels. Before v5.16, nfsd_dispatch() does not use xdr_stream, so saving the NFS header pointer before calling ->pc_encode is still an appropriate fix but it needs to be implemented differently. Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.16+ Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c index d6122bb2d167..60aacca2bca6 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c @@ -981,6 +981,7 @@ int nfsd_dispatch(struct svc_rqst *rqstp) const struct svc_procedure *proc = rqstp->rq_procinfo; __be32 *statp = rqstp->rq_accept_statp; struct nfsd_cacherep *rp; + __be32 *nfs_reply; /* * Give the xdr decoder a chance to change this if it wants @@ -1014,6 +1015,7 @@ int nfsd_dispatch(struct svc_rqst *rqstp) if (test_bit(RQ_DROPME, &rqstp->rq_flags)) goto out_update_drop; + nfs_reply = xdr_inline_decode(&rqstp->rq_res_stream, 0); if (!proc->pc_encode(rqstp, &rqstp->rq_res_stream)) goto out_encode_err; @@ -1023,7 +1025,7 @@ int nfsd_dispatch(struct svc_rqst *rqstp) */ smp_store_release(&rqstp->rq_status_counter, rqstp->rq_status_counter + 1); - nfsd_cache_update(rqstp, rp, rqstp->rq_cachetype, statp + 1); + nfsd_cache_update(rqstp, rp, rqstp->rq_cachetype, nfs_reply); out_cached_reply: return 1;
