Re: [PATCH 02/14] nfsd: Add missing gen_confirm in nfsd4_setclientid()

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On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:58:46 -0400
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:50:55AM +0800, Kinglong Mee wrote:
> > On 7/16/2015 11:36, Kinglong Mee wrote:
> > > On 7/16/2015 04:49, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:47:48PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > >>> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 05:29:41PM +0800, Kinglong Mee wrote:
> > >>>> Commit 294ac32e99 "nfsd: protect clid and verifier generation with client_lock"
> > >>>> have moved gen_confirm() to gen_clid().
> > >>>
> > >>> This means the statement in that earlier commit is wrong:
> > >>>
> > >>> 	
> > >>> 	With this, there's no need to keep two counters as they'd always
> > >>> 	be in sync anyway, so just use the clientid_counter for both.
> > >>>
> > >>> Looks to me like this may need a separate counter to eliminate the
> > >>> possibibility of returning the same confirm twice for a one clientid?
> > > 
> > > Yes, nfsd will generate same confirm for one clientid in one second.
> > > 
> > >  verf[0] = (__force __be32)jiffies;
> > >  verf[1] = (__force __be32)nn->clientid_counter;
> > > 
> > > for case 1: probable callback update, the new unconf client needs
> > > a different confirm.
> > 
> > Ignore this patch, and just revert commit 294ac32e99 
> > "nfsd: protect clid and verifier generation with client_lock"
> > is a better solve.
> 
> We can't revert that completely, it does fix a real locking bug at
> least, I think.
> 
> I'd agree to reinstating a separate counter for the verifier.  That
> verifier probably also needs to be per-network namespace to make the
> per-network-namespace locking correct.
> 
> --b.
> 

Sorry, just getting caught up on this. At the time I was just
"following the code" and not necessarily paying much attention to the
spec.

Yes, I agree -- a separate counter sounds like the right fix for now,
in conjunction with Kinglong's patch (or something like it).

> > 
> > thanks,
> > Kinglong Mee
> > 
> > > 
> > > Rereading rfc7530,
> > >    x  be the value of the client.id subfield of the SETCLIENTID4args
> > >       structure.
> > > 
> > >    v  be the value of the client.verifier subfield of the
> > >       SETCLIENTID4args structure.
> > > 
> > >    c  be the value of the client ID field returned in the
> > >       SETCLIENTID4resok structure.
> > > 
> > >    k  represent the value combination of the callback and callback_ident
> > >       fields of the SETCLIENTID4args structure.
> > > 
> > >    s  be the setclientid_confirm value returned in the SETCLIENTID4resok
> > >       structure.
> > > 
> > >    { v, x, c, k, s }  be a quintuple for a client record.  A client
> > >       record is confirmed if there has been a SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM
> > >       operation to confirm it.  Otherwise, it is unconfirmed.  An
> > >       unconfirmed record is established by a SETCLIENTID call.
> > > 
> > > ... /* case 1: probable callback update */ ... 
> > > 
> > >    o  The server checks if it has recorded a confirmed record for { v,
> > >       x, c, l, s }, where l may or may not equal k.  If so, and since
> > >       the id verifier v of the request matches that which is confirmed
> > >       and recorded, the server treats this as a probable callback
> > >       information update and records an unconfirmed { v, x, c, k, t }
> > >       and leaves the confirmed { v, x, c, l, s } in place, such that
> > >       t != s.  It does not matter whether k equals l or not.  Any
> > >       pre-existing unconfirmed { v, x, c, *, * } is removed.
> > > 
> > >       The server returns { c, t }.  It is indeed returning the old
> > >       clientid4 value c, because the client apparently only wants to
> > >       update callback value k to value l.  It's possible this request is
> > >       one from the Byzantine router that has stale callback information,
> > >       but this is not a problem.  The callback information update is
> > >       only confirmed if followed up by a SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM { c, t }.
> > > 
> > >       The server awaits confirmation of k via SETCLIENTID_CONFIRM
> > >       { c, t }.
> > > 
> > >       The server does NOT remove client (lock/share/delegation) state
> > >       for x.
> > > 
> > >>
> > >> (but frankly I can never completely review changes to the
> > >> setclientid/setclientid_confirm behavior without rereading RFC 7530
> > >> 16.33.5 every time, which is a slog.  Might help to contrive a pynfs
> > >> test derived from that text which tests for this particular behavior.)
> > >>
> > > 
> > > Make sense.
> > > I will make it later.
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > Kinglong Mee
> > > 
> > > 
> > >>>
> > >>> --b.
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> After it, setclientid will return a bad reply with all zero confirms
> > >>>> after copy_clid().
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Signed-off-by: Kinglong Mee <kinglongmee@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >>>> ---
> > >>>>  fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 5 +++--
> > >>>>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >>>>
> > >>>> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> > >>>> index e0a4556..b1f84fc 100644
> > >>>> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> > >>>> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c
> > >>>> @@ -3042,10 +3042,11 @@ nfsd4_setclientid(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate,
> > >>>>  	unconf = find_unconfirmed_client_by_name(&clname, nn);
> > >>>>  	if (unconf)
> > >>>>  		unhash_client_locked(unconf);
> > >>>> -	if (conf && same_verf(&conf->cl_verifier, &clverifier))
> > >>>> +	if (conf && same_verf(&conf->cl_verifier, &clverifier)) {
> > >>>>  		/* case 1: probable callback update */
> > >>>>  		copy_clid(new, conf);
> > >>>> -	else /* case 4 (new client) or cases 2, 3 (client reboot): */
> > >>>> +		gen_confirm(new, nn);
> > >>>> +	} else /* case 4 (new client) or cases 2, 3 (client reboot): */
> > >>>>  		gen_clid(new, nn);
> > >>>>  	new->cl_minorversion = 0;
> > >>>>  	gen_callback(new, setclid, rqstp);
> > >>>> -- 
> > >>>> 2.4.3
> > >>
> > > 
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