> On Sep 8, 2019, at 12:47 PM, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-09-08 at 11:48 -0400, Chuck Lever wrote: >>> On Sep 8, 2019, at 11:19 AM, Trond Myklebust < >>> trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 2019-09-08 at 07:39 -0400, Benjamin Coddington wrote: >>>> On 6 Sep 2019, at 16:50, Chuck Lever wrote: >>>> >>>>>> On Sep 6, 2019, at 4:47 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III < >>>>>> tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>>>>> "JBF" == J Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>>>>>>> writes: >>>>>> >>>>>> JBF> Those readdir changes were client-side, right? Based on >>>>>> that >>>>>> I'd >>>>>> JBF> been assuming a client bug, but maybe it'd be worth >>>>>> getting >>>>>> a >>>>>> full >>>>>> JBF> packet capture of the readdir reply to make sure it's >>>>>> legit. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have been working with bcodding on IRC for the past couple >>>>>> of >>>>>> days >>>>>> on >>>>>> this. Fortunately I was able to come up with way to fill up >>>>>> a >>>>>> directory >>>>>> in such a way that it will fail with certainty and as a bonus >>>>>> doesn't >>>>>> include any user data so I can feel OK about sharing packet >>>>>> captures. >>>>>> I >>>>>> have a capture alongside a kernel trace of the problematic >>>>>> operation >>>>>> in >>>>>> https://www.math.uh.edu/~tibbs/nfs/. Not that I can >>>>>> particularly >>>>>> tell >>>>>> anything useful from that, but bcodding says that it seems to >>>>>> point >>>>>> to >>>>>> some issue in sunrpc. >>>>>> >>>>>> And because I can easily reproduce this and I was able to do >>>>>> a >>>>>> bisect: >>>>>> >>>>>> 2c94b8eca1a26cd46010d6e73a23da5f2e93a19d is the first bad >>>>>> commit >>>>>> commit 2c94b8eca1a26cd46010d6e73a23da5f2e93a19d >>>>>> Author: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>> Date: Mon Feb 11 11:25:41 2019 -0500 >>>>>> >>>>>> SUNRPC: Use au_rslack when computing reply buffer size >>>>>> >>>>>> au_rslack is significantly smaller than (au_cslack << 2). >>>>>> Using >>>>>> that value results in smaller receive buffers. In some >>>>>> cases >>>>>> this >>>>>> eliminates an extra segment in Reply chunks (RPC/RDMA). >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>>>> >>>>>> :040000 040000 d4d1ce2fbe0035c5bd9df976b8c448df85dcb505 >>>>>> 7011a792dfe72ff9cd70d66e45d353f3d7817e3e M net >>>>>> >>>>>> But of course, I can't say whether this is the actual bad >>>>>> commit >>>>>> or >>>>>> whether it just introduced a behavior change which alters >>>>>> the >>>>>> conditions >>>>>> under which the problem appears. >>>>> >>>>> The first place I'd start looking is the XDR constants at the >>>>> head >>>>> of >>>>> fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c >>>>> having to do with READDIR. >>>>> >>>>> The report of behavior changes with the use of krb5p also makes >>>>> this >>>>> commit plausible. >>>> >>>> After sprinkling the printk's, we're coming up one word short in >>>> the >>>> receive >>>> buffer. I think we're not accounting for the xdr pad of buf- >>>>> pages >>>> for >>>> NFS4 >>>> readdir -- but I need to check the RFCs. Anyone know if v4 >>>> READDIR >>>> results >>>> have to be aligned? >>>> >>>> Also need to check just why krb5i is the only auth that cares.. >>>> >>> >>> I'm not seeing that. If you look at commit 02ef04e432ba, you'll see >>> that Chuck did add a 'padding term' to decode_readdir_maxsz in the >>> NFSv4 case. >>> The other thing to remember is that a readdir 'dirlist4' entry is >>> always word aligned (irrespective of the length of the filename), >>> so >>> there is no padding that needs to be taken into account. >>> >>> I think we probably rather want to look at how auth->au_ralign is >>> being >>> calculated for the case of krb5i. I'm really not understanding why >>> auth->au_ralign should not take into account the presence of the >>> mic. >>> Chuck? >> >> I'm looking at gss_unwrap_resp_integ(): >> >> 1971 auth->au_rslack = auth->au_verfsize + 2 + 1 + >> XDR_QUADLEN(mic.len); >> 1972 auth->au_ralign = auth->au_verfsize + 2; >> >> au_ralign now sets the alignment of the _start_ of the RPC message >> body. >> The MIC comes _after_ the RPC message body for krb5i. >> >> If Ben is off by one quad, that's not the MIC, which is typically 32 >> octets, >> isn't it? >> >> Maybe some variable-length data item in the returned file attributes >> is missing >> an XDR pad. > > The only two pieces of variable length data in the readdir payload are > the file name and the filehandle data. Those might present a problem > when encoding on the server side, but not when decoding on the client > side, since they are embedded in the dirlist4 (which, as I said, is > automatically aligned). The next thing I'd try, then, is to match the Wireshark-dissected READDIR4 reply that fails with the macros at the top of fs/nfs/nfs4xdr.c and look for anything that is missing. > Hmm... One thing that does bother me in both gss_unwrap_resp_integ() > and gss_unwrap_resp_priv() is that if the seqno does not match, then we > return EIO. What if we had to retransmit a request, but the server > managed to squeeze off a reply to the first transmission? > Note: it should be pretty easy to catch issues such as this, since we > do have tracepoints for them. That said, it is pretty hard to imagine > this being the problem here if the bug is always reproducible (since > retransmissions typically are not). > > -- > Trond Myklebust > Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace > trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Chuck Lever