Re: GSS sequence number window

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> On Jun 6, 2017, at 3:41 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 03:35:23PM -0400, Chuck Lever wrote:
>> I filed https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306
>> 
>> To check memory allocation latency, I could always construct
>> a framework around kmalloc and alloc_page.
>> 
>> 
>> I've also found some bad behavior around proto=rdma,sec=krb5i.
>> When I run a heavy I/O workload (fio, for example), every so
>> often a read operation fails with EIO. I dug into it a little
>> and MIC verification fails for these replies on the client.
> 
> Do we still have the problem that the read data can change between the
> time we calculate the MIC and the time we transmit the data to the
> client?

I don't see a problem with krb5p, which, if IIUC, would also
fall victim to this situation, unless there is much stricter
request serialization going on with krb5p.

Even so, how would I detect if this issue was present?


> --b.
> 
>> 
>> I filed https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=307
>> to document this second issue.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what a next step would be. My suspicion is that
>> either the server or the client is mishandling the RPC reply
>> buffer, which causes the checksums to be different. Not sure
>> why this would be so intermittent, though.

--
Chuck Lever



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