RE: [PATCH] NFS41: Drop lseg ref before fallthru to MDS

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On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 01:52 -0400, tao.peng@xxxxxxx wrote: 
> Hi, Trond,
> 
> Any comments on this patch? I still get kernel crash when pnfs write is attempted but fails and calls pnfs_ld_write_done(). It seems object layout uses the same code path as well. But I don't find the patch in either your tree or Benny's tree. Are there any concerns?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tao

The whole pnfs_ld_write_done thing is bogus and needs to be replaced
with something sane. It is trying to initiate a WRITE RPC call with the
wrong block size, and is calling the MDS rpc_call_done() and
rpc_release() with an uninitialised rpc task pointer.

Ditto for pnfs_ld_read_done.

Cheers
  Trond

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Benny Halevy [mailto:bhalevy@xxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 10:10 PM
> > To: Peng Tao
> > Cc: Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-nfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Peng, Tao
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFS41: Drop lseg ref before fallthru to MDS
> > 
> > On 2011-07-04 04:30, Peng Tao wrote:
> > > There is no need to keep lseg reference when read/write through MDS.
> > > This fixes a null pointer crash at nfs_post_op_update_inode_force_wcc
> > > because nfs4_proc_write_setup will unset wdata->res.fattr if wdata->lseg
> > > is not NULL.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <peng_tao@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Looks good to me.
> > 
> > Benny
> > 
> > > ---
> > >  fs/nfs/pnfs.c |    6 ++++++
> > >  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/nfs/pnfs.c b/fs/nfs/pnfs.c
> > > index 30a0394..55fdf02 100644
> > > --- a/fs/nfs/pnfs.c
> > > +++ b/fs/nfs/pnfs.c
> > > @@ -1193,6 +1193,9 @@ pnfs_ld_write_done(struct nfs_write_data *data)
> > >
> > >  	dprintk("%s: pnfs_error=%d, retry via MDS\n", __func__,
> > >  		data->pnfs_error);
> > > +
> > > +	put_lseg(data->lseg);
> > > +	data->lseg = NULL;
> > >  	status = nfs_initiate_write(data, NFS_CLIENT(data->inode),
> > >  				    data->mds_ops, NFS_FILE_SYNC);
> > >  	return status ? : -EAGAIN;
> > > @@ -1240,6 +1243,9 @@ pnfs_ld_read_done(struct nfs_read_data *data)
> > >
> > >  	dprintk("%s: pnfs_error=%d, retry via MDS\n", __func__,
> > >  		data->pnfs_error);
> > > +
> > > +	put_lseg(data->lseg);
> > > +	data->lseg = NULL;
> > >  	status = nfs_initiate_read(data, NFS_CLIENT(data->inode),
> > >  				   data->mds_ops);
> > >  	return status ? : -EAGAIN;
> 

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx
www.netapp.com

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