linux.git/net/sunrpc, branch v3.7-rc2

SUNRPC: Prevent kernel stack corruption on long values of flush

2012-10-17T18:59:10+00:00

The buffer size in read_flush() is too small for the longest possible values
for it. This can lead to a kernel stack corruption:

[   43.047329] Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: ffffffff833e64b4
[   43.047329]
[   43.049030] Pid: 6015, comm: trinity-child18 Tainted: G        W    3.5.0-rc7-next-20120716-sasha #221
[   43.050038] Call Trace:
[   43.050435]  [] panic+0xcd/0x1f4
[   43.050931]  [] ? read_flush.isra.7+0xe4/0x100
[   43.051602]  [] __stack_chk_fail+0x16/0x20
[   43.052206]  [] read_flush.isra.7+0xe4/0x100
[   43.052951]  [] ? read_flush_pipefs+0x30/0x30
[   43.053594]  [] read_flush_procfs+0x2c/0x30
[   43.053596]  [] proc_reg_read+0x9c/0xd0
[   43.053596]  [] ? proc_reg_write+0xd0/0xd0
[   43.053596]  [] do_loop_readv_writev+0x4b/0x90
[   43.053596]  [] do_readv_writev+0xf6/0x1d0
[   43.053596]  [] vfs_readv+0x3e/0x60
[   43.053596]  [] sys_readv+0x48/0xb0
[   43.053596]  [] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f

Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields

Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux

2012-10-13T01:53:54+00:00

Pull nfsd update from J Bruce Fields:
 "Another relatively quiet cycle.  There was some progress on my
  remaining 4.1 todo's, but a couple of them were just of the form
  "check that we do X correctly", so didn't have much affect on the
  code.

  Other than that, a bunch of cleanup and some bugfixes (including an
  annoying NFSv4.0 state leak and a busy-loop in the server that could
  cause it to peg the CPU without making progress)."

* 'for-3.7' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (46 commits)
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux/sunrpc
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux/nfsd
  nfsd4: don't allow reclaims of expired clients
  nfsd4: remove redundant callback probe
  nfsd4: expire old client earlier
  nfsd4: separate session allocation and initialization
  nfsd4: clean up session allocation
  nfsd4: minor free_session cleanup
  nfsd4: new_conn_from_crses should only allocate
  nfsd4: separate connection allocation and initialization
  nfsd4: reject bad forechannel attrs earlier
  nfsd4: enforce per-client sessions/no-sessions distinction
  nfsd4: set cl_minorversion at create time
  nfsd4: don't pin clientids to pseudoflavors
  nfsd4: fix bind_conn_to_session xdr comment
  nfsd4: cast readlink() bug argument
  NFSD: pass null terminated buf to kstrtouint()
  nfsd: remove duplicate init in nfsd4_cb_recall
  nfsd4: eliminate redundant nfs4_free_stateid
  fs/nfsd/nfs4idmap.c: adjust inconsistent IS_ERR and PTR_ERR
  ...

Merge Trond's bugfixes

2012-10-11T16:41:05+00:00

Merge branch 'bugfixes' of git://linux-nfs.org/~trondmy/nfs-2.6 into
for-3.7-incoming.  Mainly needed for Bryan's "SUNRPC: Set alloc_slot for
backchannel tcp ops", without which the 4.1 server oopses.

Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs

2012-10-10T14:52:35+00:00

Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
 "Features include:

   - Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependency from NFSv4.1
     Aside from the issues discussed at the LKS, distros are shipping
     NFSv4.1 with all the trimmings.
   - Fix fdatasync()/fsync() for the corner case of a server reboot.
   - NFSv4 OPEN access fix: finally distinguish correctly between
     open-for-read and open-for-execute permissions in all situations.
   - Ensure that the TCP socket is closed when we're in CLOSE_WAIT
   - More idmapper bugfixes
   - Lots of pNFS bugfixes and cleanups to remove unnecessary state and
     make the code easier to read.
   - In cases where a pNFS read or write fails, allow the client to
     resume trying layoutgets after two minutes of read/write-
     through-mds.
   - More net namespace fixes to the NFSv4 callback code.
   - More net namespace fixes to the NFSv3 locking code.
   - More NFSv4 migration preparatory patches.
     Including patches to detect network trunking in both NFSv4 and
     NFSv4.1
   - pNFS block updates to optimise LAYOUTGET calls."

* tag 'nfs-for-3.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (113 commits)
  pnfsblock: cleanup nfs4_blkdev_get
  NFS41: send real read size in layoutget
  NFS41: send real write size in layoutget
  NFS: track direct IO left bytes
  NFSv4.1: Cleanup ugliness in pnfs_layoutgets_blocked()
  NFSv4.1: Ensure that the layout sequence id stays 'close' to the current
  NFSv4.1: Deal with seqid wraparound in the pNFS return-on-close code
  NFSv4 set open access operation call flag in nfs4_init_opendata_res
  NFSv4.1: Remove the dependency on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
  NFSv4 reduce attribute requests for open reclaim
  NFSv4: nfs4_open_done first must check that GETATTR decoded a file type
  NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound when updating the layout "barrier" seqid
  NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound issues when updating the layout stateid
  NFSv4.1: Always set the layout stateid if this is the first layoutget
  NFSv4.1: Fix another refcount issue in pnfs_find_alloc_layout
  NFSv4: don't put ACCESS in OPEN compound if O_EXCL
  NFSv4: don't check MAY_WRITE access bit in OPEN
  NFS: Set key construction data for the legacy upcall
  NFSv4.1: don't do two EXCHANGE_IDs on mount
  NFS: nfs41_walk_client_list(): re-lock before iterating
  ...

nfs: disintegrate UAPI for nfs

2012-10-09T22:35:22+00:00

This is to complete part of the Userspace API (UAPI) disintegration for which
the preparatory patches were pulled recently.  After these patches, userspace
headers will be segregated into:

        include/uapi/linux/.../foo.h

for the userspace interface stuff, and:

        include/linux/.../foo.h

for the strictly kernel internal stuff.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields

Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2012-10-02T16:54:49+00:00

Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1.  A lot of activities this
  round including considerable API and behavior cleanups.

   * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item.  The handling of the
     timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing
     cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors.  delayed_work is
     updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as
     expected.

   * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of
     mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded
     timer+work usages.  mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added.

     These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface
     and behave like timer which is executed with process context.

   * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which
     is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and
     half-broken under certain circumstances.  This problem doesn't
     exist for non-reentrant workqueues.  While non-reentrancy check
     isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces
     across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario
     the overhead isn't too high.

     All workqueues are made non-reentrant.  This removes the
     distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and
     flush_[delayed_]_work_sync().  The former is now as strong as the
     latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished
     execution of any previous queueing on return.

   * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU
     hotplug handling significantly.

   * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU
     hotplug.

  There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from
  tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from
  wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them."

Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts
were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new
code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts.

Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more.

* 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits)
  workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
  workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
  workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
  workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
  workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
  workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
  workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
  workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
  workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()
  workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue
  workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
  workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one
  workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
  workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions
  workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
  workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
  ...

SUNRPC: Introduce rpc_clone_client_set_auth()

2012-10-01T22:33:33+00:00

An ULP is supposed to be able to replace a GSS rpc_auth object with
another GSS rpc_auth object using rpcauth_create().  However,
rpcauth_create() in 3.5 reliably fails with -EEXIST in this case.
This is because when gss_create() attempts to create the upcall pipes,
sometimes they are already there.  For example if a pipe FS mount
event occurs, or a previous GSS flavor was in use for this rpc_clnt.

It turns out that's not the only problem here.  While working on a
fix for the above problem, we noticed that replacing an rpc_clnt's
rpc_auth is not safe, since dereferencing the cl_auth field is not
protected in any way.

So we're deprecating the ability of rpcauth_create() to switch an
rpc_clnt's security flavor during normal operation.  Instead, let's
add a fresh API that clones an rpc_clnt and gives the clone a new
flavor before it's used.

This makes immediate use of the new __rpc_clone_client() helper.

This can be used in a similar fashion to rpcauth_create() when a
client is hunting for the correct security flavor.  Instead of
replacing an rpc_clnt's security flavor in a loop, the ULP replaces
the whole rpc_clnt.

To fix the -EEXIST problem, any ULP logic that relies on replacing
an rpc_clnt's rpc_auth with rpcauth_create() must be changed to use
this API instead.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever 
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

SUNRPC: Refactor rpc_clone_client()

2012-10-01T22:32:07+00:00

rpc_clone_client() does most of the same tasks as rpc_new_client(),
so there is an opportunity for code re-use.  Create a generic helper
that makes it easy to clone an RPC client while replacing any of the
clnt's parameters.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever 
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

SUNRPC: Use func in dprintk() in auth_gss.c

2012-10-01T22:32:02+00:00

Clean up: Some function names have changed, but debugging messages
were never updated.  Automate the construction of the function name
in debugging messages.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever 
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust

SUNRPC: Clean up dprintk messages in rpc_pipe.c

2012-10-01T22:31:57+00:00

Clean up: The blank space in front of the message must be spaces.
Tabs show up on the console as a graphical character.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever 
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust