On 04/11/2011 05:08 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > Sorry for an extra message. I've just found out that there appears > messages in dmesg: > [ 58.656048] RPC: AUTH_GSS upcall timed out. > [ 58.656050] Please check user daemon is running. > [ 88.656065] RPC: AUTH_GSS upcall timed out. > [ 88.656068] Please check user daemon is running. > [ 118.656077] RPC: AUTH_GSS upcall timed out. > [ 118.656080] Please check user daemon is running. > [ 148.656049] RPC: AUTH_GSS upcall timed out. > [ 148.656052] Please check user daemon is running. > [ 178.656046] RPC: AUTH_GSS upcall timed out. > [ 178.656049] Please check user daemon is running. > > > I instrumented the code and it's stuck with trying RPC_AUTH_GSS_KRB5. > > I don't use GSS at all. > > regards, Does this patch help? - Bryan There can be an infinite loop if gss_create_upcall() is called without the userspace program running. To prevent this, we return -EACCES if we notice that pipe_version hasn't changed (indicating that the pipe has not been opened). Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx> -- diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c index 9bf41ea..8a03ee0 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c @@ -2224,8 +2224,9 @@ static int nfs4_proc_get_root(struct nfs_server *server, struct nfs_fh *fhandle, for (i = 0; i < len; i++) { status = nfs4_lookup_root_sec(server, fhandle, info, flav_array[i]); - if (status != -EPERM) - break; + if (status == -EPERM || status == -EACCES) + continue; + break; } if (status == 0) status = nfs4_server_capabilities(server, fhandle); diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c index f3914d0..339ba64 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/auth_gss.c @@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ gss_refresh_upcall(struct rpc_task *task) warn_gssd(); task->tk_timeout = 15*HZ; rpc_sleep_on(&pipe_version_rpc_waitqueue, task, NULL); - return 0; + return -EAGAIN; } if (IS_ERR(gss_msg)) { err = PTR_ERR(gss_msg); @@ -563,10 +563,12 @@ retry: if (PTR_ERR(gss_msg) == -EAGAIN) { err = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(pipe_version_waitqueue, pipe_version >= 0, 15*HZ); + if (pipe_version < 0) { + warn_gssd(); + err = -EACCES; + } if (err) goto out; - if (pipe_version < 0) - warn_gssd(); goto retry; } if (IS_ERR(gss_msg)) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html