Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] NFSv4: Fix lock recovery when CREATE_SESSION/SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM fails

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On Wed, 1 Oct 2014 14:46:43 -0400
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 23:54:57 -0400
> > Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> If a NFSv4.x server returns NFS4ERR_STALE_CLIENTID in response to a
> >> CREATE_SESSION or SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM in order to tell us that it rebooted
> >> a second time, then the client will currently take this to mean that it must
> >> declare all locks to be stale, and hence ineligible for reboot recovery.
> >>
> >> RFC3530 and RFC5661 both suggest that the client should instead rely on the
> >> server to respond to inelegible open share, lock and delegation reclaim
> >> requests with NFS4ERR_NO_GRACE in this situation.
> >>
> >> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  fs/nfs/nfs4state.c | 1 -
> >>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
> >> index 22fe35104c0c..26d510d11efd 100644
> >> --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
> >> +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4state.c
> >> @@ -1761,7 +1761,6 @@ static int nfs4_handle_reclaim_lease_error(struct nfs_client *clp, int status)
> >>               break;
> >>       case -NFS4ERR_STALE_CLIENTID:
> >>               clear_bit(NFS4CLNT_LEASE_CONFIRM, &clp->cl_state);
> >> -             nfs4_state_clear_reclaim_reboot(clp);
> >>               nfs4_state_start_reclaim_reboot(clp);
> >>               break;
> >>       case -NFS4ERR_CLID_INUSE:
> >
> > What distinguishes between the v4.0 and v4.1+ case here?
> 
> Nothing. They are actually supposed to be handled identically here.
> nfs4_handle_reclaim_lease_error() is called if and only if the
> SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM (v4.0) or CREATE_SESSION (v4.1) fail. At that
> point we have not yet sent out any OPEN or LOCK reclaim requests, so
> the failure will really result in a reclaim all-or-nothing for both
> NFSv4 and NFSv4.x.
> 
> > For v4.1+, we do want the client to just try to reclaim everything that
> > it can. For v4.0 though, we need to be a little more careful. Consider:
> >
> >
> > Client                          Server
> > ===================================================================
> > SETCLIENTID
> > OPEN (O1)
> > LOCK (L1)
> >                                 reboot (B1)
> >
> > RENEW                           (NFS4ERR_STALE_CLIENTID)
> > SETCLIENTID
> > OPEN(reclaim O1)                (NFS4_OK)
> >
> >         === NETWORK PARTITION ===
> >                                 Grace period is lifted, but client1's
> >                                 lease hasn't expired yet
> >
> >                                 Lock that conflicts with L1 is handed out to client2
> >
> >                                 reboot (B2)
> >         === PARTITION HEALS ===
> > LOCK(reclaim L1)                (NFS4ERR_STALE_CLIENTID)
> >
> > SETCLIENTID
> > OPEN (reclaim O1)               (NFS4_OK)
> > LOCK (reclaim L1)               (NFS4_OK)
> >
> >
> > Now we have a conflict. I think that the client should not try to
> > reclaim L1 after B2 in the v4.0 case. Do we need to do something
> > to handle the v4.0 vs. v4.1+ cases differently here?
> 
> This patch does not change the existing handling of
> NFS4ERR_STALE_CLIENTID above, so the NFSv4.0 code will continue to
> work as before.
> 
> The reason why NFSv4.1 will not need changing above is because the
> SEQUENCE op that we send instead of RENEW will receive a
> NFS4ERR_DEADSESSION or NFS4ERR_BADSESSION instead of the stale
> clientid error.
> 

Ahh ok. Got it!

Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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