On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 10:31 -0500, Benjamin Coddington wrote: > On 12 Nov 2016, at 7:54, Jeff Layton wrote: > > > > > On Sat, 2016-11-12 at 06:08 -0500, Benjamin Coddington wrote: > > > > > > I've been seeing the following on a modified version of generic/089 > > > that gets the client stuck sending LOCK with NFS4ERR_OLD_STATEID. > > > > > > 1. Client has open stateid A, sends a CLOSE > > > 2. Client sends OPEN with same owner > > > 3. Client sends another OPEN with same owner > > > 4. Client gets a reply to OPEN in 3, stateid is B.2 (stateid B > > > sequence 2) > > > 5. Client does LOCK,LOCKU,FREE_STATEID from B.2 > > > 6. Client gets a reply to CLOSE in 1 > > > 7. Client gets reply to OPEN in 2, stateid is B.1 > > > 8. Client sends LOCK with B.1 - OLD_STATEID, now stuck in a loop > > > > > > The CLOSE response in 6 causes us to clear NFS_OPEN_STATE, so that > > > the OPEN > > > response in 7 is able to update the open_stateid even though it has a > > > lower > > > sequence number. > > > > > > I think this case could be handled by never updating the open_stateid > > > if the > > > stateids match but the sequence number of the new state is less than > > > the > > > current open_state. > > > > > > > What kernel is this on? > > On v4.9-rc2 with a couple fixups. Without them, I can't test long > enough to > reproduce this race. I don't think any of those are involved in this > problem, though. > > > > > Yes, that seems wrong. The client should be picking B.2 for the open > > stateid to use. I think that decision of whether to take a seqid is > > made > > in nfs_need_update_open_stateid. The logic in there looks correct to > > me > > at first glance though. > > nfs_need_update_open_stateid() will return true if NFS_OPEN_STATE is > unset. > That's the precondition set up by steps 1-6. Perhaps it should not > update > the stateid if they match but the sequence number is less, and still set > NFS_OPEN_STATE once more. That will fix _this_ case. Are there other > cases > where that would be a problem? > > Ben That seems wrong. The only close was sent in step 1, and that was for a completely different stateid (A rather than B). It seems likely that that is where the bug is. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
