Re: [PATCH] NFS: init client before declaration

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On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 15:30 +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:
> On 23.05.2012 00:32, Myklebust, Trond wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 12:43 -0400, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 20:18 +0400, Stanislav Kinsbursky wrote:
> >>> We have another problem here.
> >>> nfs4_init_client() will try to create pipe dentries prior to set of NFS_CS_READY
> >>> to the client. And dentries will be created since semaphore is dropped and
> >>> per-net superblock variable is initialized already.
> >>> But __rpc_pipefs_event() relays on the fact, that no dentries present.
> >>> Looks like the problem was introduced by me in aad9487c...
> >>> So maybe we should not call "continue" instead "__rpc_pipefs_event()", when
> >>> client becomes ready?
> >>> Looks like this will allow us to handle such races.
> >>
> >> Let me rework this patch a bit...
> >
> > The following is ugly, but it should be demonstrably correct, and will
> > ensure that __rpc_pipefs_event() will only be called for fully
> > initialised nfs_clients...
> >
> > 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------
> >  From 90c3b9fe9faeae32c8f629e8b6cbf5f50bb9b295 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Trond Myklebust<Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 16:22:50 -0400
> > Subject: [PATCH 1/2] NFSv4: Fix a race in the net namespace mount
> >   notification
> >
> > Since the struct nfs_client gets added to the global nfs_client_list
> > before it is initialised, it is possible that rpc_pipefs_event can
> > end up trying to create idmapper entries on such a thing.
> >
> > The solution is to have the mount notification wait for the
> > initialisation of each nfs_client to complete, and then to
> > skip any entries for which the it failed.
> >
> > Reported-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky<skinsbursky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust<Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   fs/nfs/client.c   |   10 ++++++++++
> >   fs/nfs/idmap.c    |   15 +++++++++++++++
> >   fs/nfs/internal.h |    1 +
> >   3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/nfs/client.c b/fs/nfs/client.c
> > index 60f7e4e..d3c8553 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfs/client.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfs/client.c
> > @@ -583,6 +583,16 @@ found_client:
> >   	return clp;
> >   }
> >
> > +static bool nfs_client_ready(const struct nfs_client *clp)
> > +{
> > +	return clp->cl_cons_state<= NFS_CS_READY;
> > +}
> > +
> > +int nfs_wait_client_ready(const struct nfs_client *clp)
> > +{
> > +	return wait_event_killable(nfs_client_active_wq, nfs_client_ready(clp));
> > +}
> > +
> >   /*
> >    * Mark a server as ready or failed
> >    */
> > diff --git a/fs/nfs/idmap.c b/fs/nfs/idmap.c
> > index 3e8edbe..c0753c5 100644
> > --- a/fs/nfs/idmap.c
> > +++ b/fs/nfs/idmap.c
> > @@ -530,9 +530,24 @@ static struct nfs_client *nfs_get_client_for_event(struct net *net, int event)
> >   	struct nfs_net *nn = net_generic(net, nfs_net_id);
> >   	struct dentry *cl_dentry;
> >   	struct nfs_client *clp;
> > +	int err;
> >
> > +restart:
> >   	spin_lock(&nn->nfs_client_lock);
> >   	list_for_each_entry(clp,&nn->nfs_client_list, cl_share_link) {
> > +		/* Wait for initialisation to finish */
> > +		if (clp->cl_cons_state>  NFS_CS_READY) {
> > +			atomic_inc(&clp->cl_count);
> > +			spin_unlock(&nn->nfs_client_lock);
> > +			err = nfs_wait_client_ready(clp);
> 
> 
> What about NFSv4.1 ?
> It's clients NFS_CS_READY status depends on session establishing RPC calls...
> Which in turn can hung up pipefs mount call...

The alternative then is to wait for cl_cons_state != NFS_CS_INITING.
That shouldn't require any upcalls, and so shouldn't be able to
deadlock.

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx
www.netapp.com

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