On 06/18/2012 09:28 AM, Myklebust, Trond wrote: > On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 11:04 +0200, Andre Tomt wrote: >> On 16. juni 2012 21:59, Myklebust, Trond wrote: >>> It looks to me as if the legacy upcall code is assuming that there can >>> be no more than 1 upcall at a time: there is only a single >>> idmap->idmap_key_cons, which gets assigned in nfs_idmap_legacy_upcall >>> and then read in idmap_pipe_downcall. >>> >>> Bryan, can you look into this? I suspect that we need a mutex or >>> something like that (for the legacy upcall case only) to ensure that >>> nobody overwrites the idmap->idmap_key_cons while an upcall is in >>> progress. >>> >>> Andre, if you want idmapper scalability, then you should rather use the >>> new idmapper upcall. You need a recent version of the nfs-utils package, >>> the keyutils package, and they you should add an 'id_resolver' line >>> to /etc/request-keys.conf as per the nfsidmap manpage. >> >> Indeed, using keyutils did avoid the crashes here, 40 hours and counting. >> >> Are there any downsides of having keyutils w/ id_resolver on by default >> in a distribution? Would it break older kernels or nfs-utils (just not >> getting used is fine, obviously)? > > Older kernels aren't able to use the keyutils mechanism, so they will > still require you to run the idmapd daemon, but there should be no > problems with just enabling it in /etc/request-key.conf. > Fedora 17 is supposed to install the id_resolver by default. > Hi Andre, Can you please check if this patch fixes the old idmapper? - Bryan >From 3bef58765c7308965d06d9e9d7707c7ca55648ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:01:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] NFS: Force the legacy idmapper to be single threaded It was initially coded under the assumption that there would only be one request at a time, so use a lock to enforce this requirement.. Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/idmap.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/idmap.c b/fs/nfs/idmap.c index b5b86a0..864c51e 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/idmap.c +++ b/fs/nfs/idmap.c @@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ unsigned int nfs_idmap_cache_timeout = 600; static const struct cred *id_resolver_cache; static struct key_type key_type_id_resolver_legacy; +struct idmap { + struct rpc_pipe *idmap_pipe; + struct key_construction *idmap_key_cons; + struct mutex idmap_mutex; +}; /** * nfs_fattr_init_names - initialise the nfs_fattr owner_name/group_name fields @@ -310,9 +315,11 @@ static ssize_t nfs_idmap_get_key(const char *name, size_t namelen, name, namelen, type, data, data_size, NULL); if (ret < 0) { + mutex_lock(&idmap->idmap_mutex); ret = nfs_idmap_request_key(&key_type_id_resolver_legacy, name, namelen, type, data, data_size, idmap); + mutex_unlock(&idmap->idmap_mutex); } return ret; } @@ -354,11 +361,6 @@ static int nfs_idmap_lookup_id(const char *name, size_t namelen, const char *typ /* idmap classic begins here */ module_param(nfs_idmap_cache_timeout, int, 0644); -struct idmap { - struct rpc_pipe *idmap_pipe; - struct key_construction *idmap_key_cons; -}; - enum { Opt_find_uid, Opt_find_gid, Opt_find_user, Opt_find_group, Opt_find_err }; @@ -469,6 +471,7 @@ nfs_idmap_new(struct nfs_client *clp) return error; } idmap->idmap_pipe = pipe; + mutex_init(&idmap->idmap_mutex); clp->cl_idmap = idmap; return 0; -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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