linux/net/sunrpc
Chuck Lever cb0ae1fbb2 xprtrdma: Do not update {head, tail}.iov_len in rpcrdma_inline_fixup()
While trying NFSv4.0/RDMA with sec=krb5p, I noticed small NFS READ
operations failed. After the client unwrapped the NFS READ reply
message, the NFS READ XDR decoder was not able to decode the reply.
The message was "Server cheating in reply", with the reported
number of received payload bytes being zero. Applications reported
a read(2) that returned -1/EIO.

The problem is rpcrdma_inline_fixup() sets the tail.iov_len to zero
when the incoming reply fits entirely in the head iovec. The zero
tail.iov_len confused xdr_buf_trim(), which then mangled the actual
reply data instead of simply removing the trailing GSS checksum.

As near as I can tell, RPC transports are not supposed to update the
head.iov_len, page_len, or tail.iov_len fields in the receive XDR
buffer when handling an incoming RPC reply message. These fields
contain the length of each component of the XDR buffer, and hence
the maximum number of bytes of reply data that can be stored in each
XDR buffer component. I've concluded this because:

- This is how xdr_partial_copy_from_skb() appears to behave
- rpcrdma_inline_fixup() already does not alter page_len
- call_decode() compares rq_private_buf and rq_rcv_buf and WARNs
   if they are not exactly the same

Unfortunately, as soon as I tried the simple fix to just remove the
line that sets tail.iov_len to zero, I saw that the logic that
appends the implicit Write chunk pad inline depends on inline_fixup
setting tail.iov_len to zero.

To address this, re-organize the tail iovec handling logic to use
the same approach as with the head iovec: simply point tail.iov_base
to the correct bytes in the receive buffer.

While I remember all this, write down the conclusion in documenting
comments.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
2016-07-11 15:50:43 -04:00
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auth_gss NFS client updates for Linux 4.7 2016-05-26 10:33:33 -07:00
xprtrdma xprtrdma: Do not update {head, tail}.iov_len in rpcrdma_inline_fixup() 2016-07-11 15:50:43 -04:00
addr.c replace strict_strto calls 2014-07-12 18:45:49 -04:00
auth_generic.c sunrpc: add rpc_lookup_generic_cred 2016-05-09 09:05:40 -04:00
auth_null.c nfsd: Lower NFSv4.1 callback message size limit 2016-03-01 13:06:35 -08:00
auth_unix.c sunrpc: plumb gfp_t parm into crcreate operation 2016-05-09 09:05:40 -04:00
auth.c SUNRPC: Ensure get_rpccred() and put_rpccred() can take NULL arguments 2016-05-17 15:48:06 -04:00
backchannel_rqst.c SUNRPC: Fix callback channel 2015-12-07 13:04:59 -08:00
cache.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
clnt.c rpc: share one xps between all backchannels 2016-06-15 10:32:25 -04:00
debugfs.c SUNRPC: Address kbuild warning in net/sunrpc/debugfs.c 2015-06-11 14:01:06 -04:00
Kconfig rpcrdma: Merge svcrdma and xprtrdma modules into one 2015-06-04 16:56:02 -04:00
Makefile SUNRPC: Add a structure to track multiple transports 2016-02-05 18:48:54 -05:00
netns.h Merge branch 'for-3.14' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2014-01-30 10:18:43 -08:00
rpc_pipe.c mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
rpcb_clnt.c SUNRPC: Use the multipath iterator to assign a transport to each task 2016-02-05 18:48:55 -05:00
sched.c SUNRPC: Allow caller to specify the transport to use 2016-02-05 18:48:55 -05:00
socklib.c sunrpc: do not pull udp headers on receive 2016-04-11 15:31:33 -04:00
stats.c sunrpc: add rpc_count_iostats_idx 2015-02-03 11:06:38 -08:00
sunrpc_syms.c sunrpc: make debugfs file creation failure non-fatal 2015-04-23 14:42:27 -04:00
sunrpc.h SUNRPC: track whether a request is coming from a loop-back interface. 2014-05-22 15:59:18 -04:00
svc_xprt.c rpc: share one xps between all backchannels 2016-06-15 10:32:25 -04:00
svc.c SUNRPC: Fix callback channel 2015-12-07 13:04:59 -08:00
svcauth_unix.c svcrpc: move some initialization to common code 2015-11-24 10:39:16 -07:00
svcauth.c svcrpc: move some initialization to common code 2015-11-24 10:39:16 -07:00
svcsock.c sock: tigthen lockdep checks for sock_owned_by_user 2016-04-13 22:37:20 -04:00
sysctl.c Sunrpc: Supports hexadecimal number for sysctl files of sunrpc debug 2015-11-03 15:56:49 -05:00
timer.c net: cleanup unsigned to unsigned int 2012-04-15 12:44:40 -04:00
xdr.c SUNRPC: init xdr_stream for zero iov_len, page_len 2016-05-09 09:05:40 -04:00
xprt.c SUNRPC: Use the multipath iterator to assign a transport to each task 2016-02-05 18:48:55 -05:00
xprtmultipath.c SUNRPC: Add a structure to track multiple transports 2016-02-05 18:48:54 -05:00
xprtsock.c rpc: share one xps between all backchannels 2016-06-15 10:32:25 -04:00