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Trond Myklebust c9399f21c2 NFSv4: Fix OPEN / CLOSE race
Ben Coddington has noted the following race between OPEN and CLOSE
on a single client.

Process 1		Process 2		Server
=========		=========		======

1)  OPEN file
2)			OPEN file
3)						Process OPEN (1) seqid=1
4)						Process OPEN (2) seqid=2
5)						Reply OPEN (2)
6)			Receive reply (2)
7)			new stateid, seqid=2

8)			CLOSE file, using
			stateid w/ seqid=2
9)						Reply OPEN (1)
10(						Process CLOSE (8)
11)						Reply CLOSE (8)
12)						Forget stateid
						file closed

13)			Receive reply (7)
14)			Forget stateid
			file closed.

15) Receive reply (1).
16) New stateid seqid=1
    is really the same
    stateid that was
    closed.

IOW: the reply to the first OPEN is delayed. Since "Process 2" does
not wait before closing the file, and it does not cache the closed
stateid, then when the delayed reply is finally received, it is treated
as setting up a new stateid by the client.

The fix is to ensure that the client processes the OPEN and CLOSE calls
in the same order in which the server processed them.

This commit ensures that we examine the seqid of the stateid
returned by OPEN. If it is a new stateid, we assume the seqid
must be equal to the value 1, and that each state transition
increments the seqid value by 1 (See RFC7530, Section 9.1.4.2,
and RFC5661, Section 8.2.2).

If the tracker sees that an OPEN returns with a seqid that is greater
than the cached seqid + 1, then it bumps a flag to ensure that the
caller waits for the RPCs carrying the missing seqids to complete.

Note that there can still be pathologies where the server crashes before
it can even send us the missing seqids. Since the OPEN call is still
holding a slot when it waits here, that could cause the recovery to
stall forever. To avoid that, we time out after a 5 second wait.

Reported-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
2017-11-17 16:43:45 -05:00
arch Merge branch 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-14 15:26:38 -04:00
block bio_copy_user_iov(): don't ignore ->iov_offset 2017-10-10 23:55:14 -04:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: shash - Fix zero-length shash ahash digest crash 2017-10-11 00:34:07 +08:00
Documentation mm, swap: use page-cluster as max window of VMA based swap readahead 2017-10-13 16:18:33 -07:00
drivers Char/Misc driver fixes for 4.14-rc5 2017-10-15 07:50:38 -04:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs NFSv4: Fix OPEN / CLOSE race 2017-11-17 16:43:45 -05:00
include sunrpc: Add rpc_request static trace point 2017-11-17 16:43:45 -05:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-14 15:20:38 -04:00
lib Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-14 15:14:20 -04:00
mm mm, swap: use page-cluster as max window of VMA based swap readahead 2017-10-13 16:18:33 -07:00
net sunrpc: Add rpc_request static trace point 2017-11-17 16:43:45 -05:00
samples media updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-07 12:53:14 -07:00
scripts scripts/kallsyms.c: ignore symbol type 'n' 2017-10-13 16:18:32 -07:00
security lsm: fix smack_inode_removexattr and xattr_getsecurity memleak 2017-10-04 18:03:15 +11:00
sound ALSA: caiaq: Fix stray URB at probe error path 2017-10-11 17:01:18 +02:00
tools Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-10-14 15:16:49 -04:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt Revert "KVM: Don't accept obviously wrong gsi values via KVM_IRQFD" 2017-09-19 08:37:17 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap Update James Hogan's email address 2017-10-04 17:11:53 -07:00
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CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS Another latent bug related to PCID, an out-of-bounds access, 2017-10-12 10:42:03 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.14-rc5 2017-10-15 21:01:12 -04:00
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