Re: [PATCH] NFS: Fix an LOCK/OPEN race when unlinking an open file

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On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Anna Schumaker
<Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/28/2016 12:05 PM, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>
>>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 11:56 AM, Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Chuck or Anna,
>>>
>>> If the patch is accepted, do you mind expanding the commit message to
>>> include the wording about the LOCK and CB_RECALL race (so that it's
>>> documented to look back into it).
>>
>> Anna's choice.
>
> Sounds like a good idea.  Is there any particular wording that you want?  If not, then I can try to base something off of your email from Tuesday (4/26).

No particular wording. Could be as little as: "helps with LOCK and
CB_RECALL race" or could include my explanation of what happens from
Tuesday.

>
> Anna
>
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Anna Schumaker
>>> <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> On 04/28/2016 10:06 AM, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Apr 28, 2016, at 9:13 AM, Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The patch looks pretty straightforward to me, and it sounds like it fixes a few problems that people are seeing.  One question (below):
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 04/28/2016 08:43 AM, William Dauchy wrote:
>>>>>>> Hello Anna,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Could you have a look at this one please?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> William
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>> I believe this patch also helps with a race between a LOCK and
>>>>>>>> CB_RECALL. Application does a lock as the delegation is being
>>>>>>>> recalled. The lock thread sees the delegated state and acquires a
>>>>>>>> local lock. At the same time delegation doesn't see it the lock yet
>>>>>>>> and returns the delegation. Application proceeds to do IO. It ends up
>>>>>>>> using an open stateid for the IO (as there is no delegation stateid or
>>>>>>>> lock stateid). The server is unaware of the lock so it can give that
>>>>>>>> lock to somebody else. Yet this client thinks it has a local lock. It
>>>>>>>> leads to inconsistent data between clients.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 4:20 PM, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> At Connectathon 2016, we found that recent upstream Linux clients
>>>>>>>>> would occasionally send a LOCK operation with a zero stateid. This
>>>>>>>>> appeared to happen in close proximity to another thread returning
>>>>>>>>> a delegation before unlinking the same file while it remained open.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Earlier, the client received a write delegation on this file and
>>>>>>>>> returned the open stateid. Now, as it is getting ready to unlink the
>>>>>>>>> file, it returns the write delegation. But there is still an open
>>>>>>>>> file descriptor on that file, so the client must OPEN the file
>>>>>>>>> again before it returns the delegation.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Since commit 24311f884189 ('NFSv4: Recovery of recalled read
>>>>>>>>> delegations is broken'), nfs_open_delegation_recall() clears the
>>>>>>>>> NFS_DELEGATED_STATE flag _before_ it sends the OPEN. This allows a
>>>>>>>>> racing LOCK on the same inode to be put on the wire before the OPEN
>>>>>>>>> operation has returned a valid open stateid.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> To eliminate this race, serialize delegation return with the
>>>>>>>>> acquisition of a file lock on the same file. Adopt the same approach
>>>>>>>>> as is used in the unlock path.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Fixes: 24311f884189 ('NFSv4: Recovery of recalled read ... ')
>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>>> ---
>>>>>>>>> Hi-
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> This fix appears to be both safe and effective. Please consider
>>>>>>>>> it for v4.7 and for stable. Thanks!
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c |    4 ++++
>>>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
>>>>>>>>> index 01bef06..c40f1b6 100644
>>>>>>>>> --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
>>>>>>>>> +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
>>>>>>>>> @@ -6054,6 +6054,7 @@ static int nfs41_lock_expired(struct nfs4_state *state, struct file_lock *reques
>>>>>>>>> static int _nfs4_proc_setlk(struct nfs4_state *state, int cmd, struct file_lock *request)
>>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>>>       struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(state->inode);
>>>>>>>>> +       struct nfs4_state_owner *sp = state->owner;
>>>>>>>>>       unsigned char fl_flags = request->fl_flags;
>>>>>>>>>       int status = -ENOLCK;
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> @@ -6068,6 +6069,7 @@ static int _nfs4_proc_setlk(struct nfs4_state *state, int cmd, struct file_lock
>>>>>>>>>       status = do_vfs_lock(state->inode, request);
>>>>>>>>>       if (status < 0)
>>>>>>>>>               goto out;
>>>>>>>>> +       mutex_lock(&sp->so_delegreturn_mutex);
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From what I can tell, the first call to do_vfs_lock() in this function is used to test if we can take the lock locally.  Do we need to worry about this racing with delegreturn, too?
>>>>>
>>>>> When I included that call in the critical section,
>>>>> cthon04 locking tests deadlocked.
>>>>
>>>> Got it.  Thanks for checking!
>>>>
>>>> Anna
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Anna
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>       down_read(&nfsi->rwsem);
>>>>>>>>>       if (test_bit(NFS_DELEGATED_STATE, &state->flags)) {
>>>>>>>>>               /* Yes: cache locks! */
>>>>>>>>> @@ -6075,9 +6077,11 @@ static int _nfs4_proc_setlk(struct nfs4_state *state, int cmd, struct file_lock
>>>>>>>>>               request->fl_flags = fl_flags & ~FL_SLEEP;
>>>>>>>>>               status = do_vfs_lock(state->inode, request);
>>>>>>>>>               up_read(&nfsi->rwsem);
>>>>>>>>> +               mutex_unlock(&sp->so_delegreturn_mutex);
>>>>>>>>>               goto out;
>>>>>>>>>       }
>>>>>>>>>       up_read(&nfsi->rwsem);
>>>>>>>>> +       mutex_unlock(&sp->so_delegreturn_mutex);
>>>>>>>>>       status = _nfs4_do_setlk(state, cmd, request, NFS_LOCK_NEW);
>>>>>>>>> out:
>>>>>>>>>       request->fl_flags = fl_flags;
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Chuck Lever
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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