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<title>linux-toradex.git/net/sunrpc/cache.c, branch v5.5</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>sunrpc: fix crash when cache_head become valid before update</title>
<updated>2019-10-11T17:13:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Tikhomirov</name>
<email>ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-01T08:03:59+00:00</published>
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I was investigating a crash in our Virtuozzo7 kernel which happened in
in svcauth_unix_set_client. I found out that we access m_client field
in ip_map structure, which was received from sunrpc_cache_lookup (we
have a bit older kernel, now the code is in sunrpc_cache_add_entry), and
these field looks uninitialized (m_client == 0x74 don't look like a
pointer) but in the cache_head in flags we see 0x1 which is CACHE_VALID.

It looks like the problem appeared from our previous fix to sunrpc (1):
commit 4ecd55ea0742 ("sunrpc: fix cache_head leak due to queued
request")

And we've also found a patch already fixing our patch (2):
commit d58431eacb22 ("sunrpc: don't mark uninitialised items as VALID.")

Though the crash is eliminated, I think the core of the problem is not
completely fixed:

Neil in the patch (2) makes cache_head CACHE_NEGATIVE, before
cache_fresh_locked which was added in (1) to fix crash. These way
cache_is_valid won't say the cache is valid anymore and in
svcauth_unix_set_client the function cache_check will return error
instead of 0, and we don't count entry as initialized.

But it looks like we need to remove cache_fresh_locked completely in
sunrpc_cache_lookup:

In (1) we've only wanted to make cache_fresh_unlocked-&gt;cache_dequeue so
that cache_requests with no readers also release corresponding
cache_head, to fix their leak.  We with Vasily were not sure if
cache_fresh_locked and cache_fresh_unlocked should be used in pair or
not, so we've guessed to use them in pair.

Now we see that we don't want the CACHE_VALID bit set here by
cache_fresh_locked, as "valid" means "initialized" and there is no
initialization in sunrpc_cache_add_entry. Both expiry_time and
last_refresh are not used in cache_fresh_unlocked code-path and also not
required for the initial fix.

So to conclude cache_fresh_locked was called by mistake, and we can just
safely remove it instead of crutching it with CACHE_NEGATIVE. It looks
ideologically better for me. Hope I don't miss something here.

Here is our crash backtrace:
[13108726.326291] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000074
[13108726.326365] IP: [&lt;ffffffffc01f79eb&gt;] svcauth_unix_set_client+0x2ab/0x520 [sunrpc]
[13108726.326448] PGD 0
[13108726.326468] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[13108726.326497] Modules linked in: nbd isofs xfs loop kpatch_cumulative_81_0_r1(O) xt_physdev nfnetlink_queue bluetooth rfkill ip6table_nat nf_nat_ipv6 ip_vs_wrr ip_vs_wlc ip_vs_sh nf_conntrack_netlink ip_vs_sed ip_vs_pe_sip nf_conntrack_sip ip_vs_nq ip_vs_lc ip_vs_lblcr ip_vs_lblc ip_vs_ftp ip_vs_dh nf_nat_ftp nf_conntrack_ftp iptable_raw xt_recent nf_log_ipv6 xt_hl ip6t_rt nf_log_ipv4 nf_log_common xt_LOG xt_limit xt_TCPMSS xt_tcpmss vxlan ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel xt_statistic xt_NFLOG nfnetlink_log dummy xt_mark xt_REDIRECT nf_nat_redirect raw_diag udp_diag tcp_diag inet_diag netlink_diag af_packet_diag unix_diag rpcsec_gss_krb5 xt_addrtype ip6t_rpfilter ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ebtable_nat ebtable_broute nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_mangle ip6table_raw nfsv4
[13108726.327173]  dns_resolver cls_u32 binfmt_misc arptable_filter arp_tables ip6table_filter ip6_tables devlink fuse_kio_pcs ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 xt_nat iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 xt_comment nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_wdog_tmo xt_multiport bonding xt_set xt_conntrack iptable_filter iptable_mangle kpatch(O) ebtable_filter ebt_among ebtables ip_set_hash_ip ip_set nfnetlink vfat fat skx_edac intel_powerclamp coretemp intel_rapl iosf_mbi kvm_intel kvm irqbypass fuse pcspkr ses enclosure joydev sg mei_me hpwdt hpilo lpc_ich mei ipmi_si shpchp ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler xt_ipvs acpi_power_meter ip_vs_rr nfsv3 nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl nfs lockd grace fscache nf_nat cls_fw sch_htb sch_cbq sch_sfq ip_vs em_u32 nf_conntrack tun br_netfilter veth overlay ip6_vzprivnet ip6_vznetstat ip_vznetstat
[13108726.327817]  ip_vzprivnet vziolimit vzevent vzlist vzstat vznetstat vznetdev vzmon vzdev bridge pio_kaio pio_nfs pio_direct pfmt_raw pfmt_ploop1 ploop ip_tables ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic mgag200 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper scsi_transport_iscsi 8021q syscopyarea sysfillrect garp sysimgblt fb_sys_fops mrp stp ttm llc bnx2x crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel drm dm_multipath ghash_clmulni_intel uas aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd tg3 smartpqi scsi_transport_sas mdio libcrc32c i2c_core usb_storage ptp pps_core wmi sunrpc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: kpatch_cumulative_82_0_r1]
[13108726.328403] CPU: 35 PID: 63742 Comm: nfsd ve: 51332 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W  O   ------------   3.10.0-862.20.2.vz7.73.29 #1 73.29
[13108726.328491] Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10/ProLiant DL360 Gen10, BIOS U32 10/02/2018
[13108726.328554] task: ffffa0a6a41b1160 ti: ffffa0c2a74bc000 task.ti: ffffa0c2a74bc000
[13108726.328610] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffc01f79eb&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffffc01f79eb&gt;] svcauth_unix_set_client+0x2ab/0x520 [sunrpc]
[13108726.328706] RSP: 0018:ffffa0c2a74bfd80  EFLAGS: 00010246
[13108726.328750] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffa0a6183ae000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[13108726.328811] RDX: 0000000000000074 RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: ffffa0c2a74bfcf0
[13108726.328864] RBP: ffffa0c2a74bfe00 R08: ffffa0bab8c22960 R09: 0000000000000001
[13108726.328916] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffa0a32aa7f000
[13108726.328969] R13: ffffa0a6183afac0 R14: ffffa0c233d88d00 R15: ffffa0c2a74bfdb4
[13108726.329022] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0e17f9c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[13108726.329081] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[13108726.332311] CR2: 0000000000000074 CR3: 00000026a1b28000 CR4: 00000000007607e0
[13108726.334606] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[13108726.336754] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[13108726.338908] PKRU: 00000000
[13108726.341047] Call Trace:
[13108726.343074]  [&lt;ffffffff8a2c78b4&gt;] ? groups_alloc+0x34/0x110
[13108726.344837]  [&lt;ffffffffc01f5eb4&gt;] svc_set_client+0x24/0x30 [sunrpc]
[13108726.346631]  [&lt;ffffffffc01f2ac1&gt;] svc_process_common+0x241/0x710 [sunrpc]
[13108726.348332]  [&lt;ffffffffc01f3093&gt;] svc_process+0x103/0x190 [sunrpc]
[13108726.350016]  [&lt;ffffffffc07d605f&gt;] nfsd+0xdf/0x150 [nfsd]
[13108726.351735]  [&lt;ffffffffc07d5f80&gt;] ? nfsd_destroy+0x80/0x80 [nfsd]
[13108726.353459]  [&lt;ffffffff8a2bf741&gt;] kthread+0xd1/0xe0
[13108726.355195]  [&lt;ffffffff8a2bf670&gt;] ? create_kthread+0x60/0x60
[13108726.356896]  [&lt;ffffffff8a9556dd&gt;] ret_from_fork_nospec_begin+0x7/0x21
[13108726.358577]  [&lt;ffffffff8a2bf670&gt;] ? create_kthread+0x60/0x60
[13108726.360240] Code: 4c 8b 45 98 0f 8e 2e 01 00 00 83 f8 fe 0f 84 76 fe ff ff 85 c0 0f 85 2b 01 00 00 49 8b 50 40 b8 01 00 00 00 48 89 93 d0 1a 00 00 &lt;f0&gt; 0f c1 02 83 c0 01 83 f8 01 0f 8e 53 02 00 00 49 8b 44 24 38
[13108726.363769] RIP  [&lt;ffffffffc01f79eb&gt;] svcauth_unix_set_client+0x2ab/0x520 [sunrpc]
[13108726.365530]  RSP &lt;ffffa0c2a74bfd80&gt;
[13108726.367179] CR2: 0000000000000074

Fixes: d58431eacb22 ("sunrpc: don't mark uninitialised items as VALID.")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov &lt;ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
I was investigating a crash in our Virtuozzo7 kernel which happened in
in svcauth_unix_set_client. I found out that we access m_client field
in ip_map structure, which was received from sunrpc_cache_lookup (we
have a bit older kernel, now the code is in sunrpc_cache_add_entry), and
these field looks uninitialized (m_client == 0x74 don't look like a
pointer) but in the cache_head in flags we see 0x1 which is CACHE_VALID.

It looks like the problem appeared from our previous fix to sunrpc (1):
commit 4ecd55ea0742 ("sunrpc: fix cache_head leak due to queued
request")

And we've also found a patch already fixing our patch (2):
commit d58431eacb22 ("sunrpc: don't mark uninitialised items as VALID.")

Though the crash is eliminated, I think the core of the problem is not
completely fixed:

Neil in the patch (2) makes cache_head CACHE_NEGATIVE, before
cache_fresh_locked which was added in (1) to fix crash. These way
cache_is_valid won't say the cache is valid anymore and in
svcauth_unix_set_client the function cache_check will return error
instead of 0, and we don't count entry as initialized.

But it looks like we need to remove cache_fresh_locked completely in
sunrpc_cache_lookup:

In (1) we've only wanted to make cache_fresh_unlocked-&gt;cache_dequeue so
that cache_requests with no readers also release corresponding
cache_head, to fix their leak.  We with Vasily were not sure if
cache_fresh_locked and cache_fresh_unlocked should be used in pair or
not, so we've guessed to use them in pair.

Now we see that we don't want the CACHE_VALID bit set here by
cache_fresh_locked, as "valid" means "initialized" and there is no
initialization in sunrpc_cache_add_entry. Both expiry_time and
last_refresh are not used in cache_fresh_unlocked code-path and also not
required for the initial fix.

So to conclude cache_fresh_locked was called by mistake, and we can just
safely remove it instead of crutching it with CACHE_NEGATIVE. It looks
ideologically better for me. Hope I don't miss something here.

Here is our crash backtrace:
[13108726.326291] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000074
[13108726.326365] IP: [&lt;ffffffffc01f79eb&gt;] svcauth_unix_set_client+0x2ab/0x520 [sunrpc]
[13108726.326448] PGD 0
[13108726.326468] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
[13108726.326497] Modules linked in: nbd isofs xfs loop kpatch_cumulative_81_0_r1(O) xt_physdev nfnetlink_queue bluetooth rfkill ip6table_nat nf_nat_ipv6 ip_vs_wrr ip_vs_wlc ip_vs_sh nf_conntrack_netlink ip_vs_sed ip_vs_pe_sip nf_conntrack_sip ip_vs_nq ip_vs_lc ip_vs_lblcr ip_vs_lblc ip_vs_ftp ip_vs_dh nf_nat_ftp nf_conntrack_ftp iptable_raw xt_recent nf_log_ipv6 xt_hl ip6t_rt nf_log_ipv4 nf_log_common xt_LOG xt_limit xt_TCPMSS xt_tcpmss vxlan ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel xt_statistic xt_NFLOG nfnetlink_log dummy xt_mark xt_REDIRECT nf_nat_redirect raw_diag udp_diag tcp_diag inet_diag netlink_diag af_packet_diag unix_diag rpcsec_gss_krb5 xt_addrtype ip6t_rpfilter ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ebtable_nat ebtable_broute nf_conntrack_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv6 ip6table_mangle ip6table_raw nfsv4
[13108726.327173]  dns_resolver cls_u32 binfmt_misc arptable_filter arp_tables ip6table_filter ip6_tables devlink fuse_kio_pcs ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 xt_nat iptable_nat nf_nat_ipv4 xt_comment nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_defrag_ipv4 xt_wdog_tmo xt_multiport bonding xt_set xt_conntrack iptable_filter iptable_mangle kpatch(O) ebtable_filter ebt_among ebtables ip_set_hash_ip ip_set nfnetlink vfat fat skx_edac intel_powerclamp coretemp intel_rapl iosf_mbi kvm_intel kvm irqbypass fuse pcspkr ses enclosure joydev sg mei_me hpwdt hpilo lpc_ich mei ipmi_si shpchp ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler xt_ipvs acpi_power_meter ip_vs_rr nfsv3 nfsd auth_rpcgss nfs_acl nfs lockd grace fscache nf_nat cls_fw sch_htb sch_cbq sch_sfq ip_vs em_u32 nf_conntrack tun br_netfilter veth overlay ip6_vzprivnet ip6_vznetstat ip_vznetstat
[13108726.327817]  ip_vzprivnet vziolimit vzevent vzlist vzstat vznetstat vznetdev vzmon vzdev bridge pio_kaio pio_nfs pio_direct pfmt_raw pfmt_ploop1 ploop ip_tables ext4 mbcache jbd2 sd_mod crc_t10dif crct10dif_generic mgag200 i2c_algo_bit drm_kms_helper scsi_transport_iscsi 8021q syscopyarea sysfillrect garp sysimgblt fb_sys_fops mrp stp ttm llc bnx2x crct10dif_pclmul crct10dif_common crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel drm dm_multipath ghash_clmulni_intel uas aesni_intel lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd tg3 smartpqi scsi_transport_sas mdio libcrc32c i2c_core usb_storage ptp pps_core wmi sunrpc dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod [last unloaded: kpatch_cumulative_82_0_r1]
[13108726.328403] CPU: 35 PID: 63742 Comm: nfsd ve: 51332 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W  O   ------------   3.10.0-862.20.2.vz7.73.29 #1 73.29
[13108726.328491] Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10/ProLiant DL360 Gen10, BIOS U32 10/02/2018
[13108726.328554] task: ffffa0a6a41b1160 ti: ffffa0c2a74bc000 task.ti: ffffa0c2a74bc000
[13108726.328610] RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffffc01f79eb&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffffc01f79eb&gt;] svcauth_unix_set_client+0x2ab/0x520 [sunrpc]
[13108726.328706] RSP: 0018:ffffa0c2a74bfd80  EFLAGS: 00010246
[13108726.328750] RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffffa0a6183ae000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[13108726.328811] RDX: 0000000000000074 RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: ffffa0c2a74bfcf0
[13108726.328864] RBP: ffffa0c2a74bfe00 R08: ffffa0bab8c22960 R09: 0000000000000001
[13108726.328916] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffa0a32aa7f000
[13108726.328969] R13: ffffa0a6183afac0 R14: ffffa0c233d88d00 R15: ffffa0c2a74bfdb4
[13108726.329022] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0e17f9c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[13108726.329081] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[13108726.332311] CR2: 0000000000000074 CR3: 00000026a1b28000 CR4: 00000000007607e0
[13108726.334606] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[13108726.336754] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[13108726.338908] PKRU: 00000000
[13108726.341047] Call Trace:
[13108726.343074]  [&lt;ffffffff8a2c78b4&gt;] ? groups_alloc+0x34/0x110
[13108726.344837]  [&lt;ffffffffc01f5eb4&gt;] svc_set_client+0x24/0x30 [sunrpc]
[13108726.346631]  [&lt;ffffffffc01f2ac1&gt;] svc_process_common+0x241/0x710 [sunrpc]
[13108726.348332]  [&lt;ffffffffc01f3093&gt;] svc_process+0x103/0x190 [sunrpc]
[13108726.350016]  [&lt;ffffffffc07d605f&gt;] nfsd+0xdf/0x150 [nfsd]
[13108726.351735]  [&lt;ffffffffc07d5f80&gt;] ? nfsd_destroy+0x80/0x80 [nfsd]
[13108726.353459]  [&lt;ffffffff8a2bf741&gt;] kthread+0xd1/0xe0
[13108726.355195]  [&lt;ffffffff8a2bf670&gt;] ? create_kthread+0x60/0x60
[13108726.356896]  [&lt;ffffffff8a9556dd&gt;] ret_from_fork_nospec_begin+0x7/0x21
[13108726.358577]  [&lt;ffffffff8a2bf670&gt;] ? create_kthread+0x60/0x60
[13108726.360240] Code: 4c 8b 45 98 0f 8e 2e 01 00 00 83 f8 fe 0f 84 76 fe ff ff 85 c0 0f 85 2b 01 00 00 49 8b 50 40 b8 01 00 00 00 48 89 93 d0 1a 00 00 &lt;f0&gt; 0f c1 02 83 c0 01 83 f8 01 0f 8e 53 02 00 00 49 8b 44 24 38
[13108726.363769] RIP  [&lt;ffffffffc01f79eb&gt;] svcauth_unix_set_client+0x2ab/0x520 [sunrpc]
[13108726.365530]  RSP &lt;ffffa0c2a74bfd80&gt;
[13108726.367179] CR2: 0000000000000074

Fixes: d58431eacb22 ("sunrpc: don't mark uninitialised items as VALID.")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov &lt;ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Acked-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sunrpc: add a new cache_detail operation for when a cache is flushed</title>
<updated>2019-08-19T15:00:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Layton</name>
<email>jeff.layton@primarydata.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-18T18:18:44+00:00</published>
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When the exports table is changed, exportfs will usually write a new
time to the "flush" file in the nfsd.export cache procfile. This tells
the kernel to flush any entries that are older than that value.

This gives us a mechanism to tell whether an unexport might have
occurred. Add a new -&gt;flush cache_detail operation that is called after
flushing the cache whenever someone writes to a "flush" file.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jeff.layton@primarydata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@primarydata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
When the exports table is changed, exportfs will usually write a new
time to the "flush" file in the nfsd.export cache procfile. This tells
the kernel to flush any entries that are older than that value.

This gives us a mechanism to tell whether an unexport might have
occurred. Add a new -&gt;flush cache_detail operation that is called after
flushing the cache whenever someone writes to a "flush" file.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton &lt;jeff.layton@primarydata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@primarydata.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>SUNRPC: Track writers of the 'channel' file to improve cache_listeners_exist</title>
<updated>2019-07-30T15:55:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dave Wysochanski</name>
<email>dwysocha@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-26T22:33:01+00:00</published>
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The sunrpc cache interface is susceptible to being fooled by a rogue
process just reading a 'channel' file.  If this happens the kernel
may think a valid daemon exists to service the cache when it does not.
For example, the following may fool the kernel:
cat /proc/net/rpc/auth.unix.gid/channel

Change the tracking of readers to writers when considering whether a
listener exists as all valid daemon processes either open a channel
file O_RDWR or O_WRONLY.  While this does not prevent a rogue process
from "stealing" a message from the kernel, it does at least improve
the kernels perception of whether a valid process servicing the cache
exists.

Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski &lt;dwysocha@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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<pre>
The sunrpc cache interface is susceptible to being fooled by a rogue
process just reading a 'channel' file.  If this happens the kernel
may think a valid daemon exists to service the cache when it does not.
For example, the following may fool the kernel:
cat /proc/net/rpc/auth.unix.gid/channel

Change the tracking of readers to writers when considering whether a
listener exists as all valid daemon processes either open a channel
file O_RDWR or O_WRONLY.  While this does not prevent a rogue process
from "stealing" a message from the kernel, it does at least improve
the kernels perception of whether a valid process servicing the cache
exists.

Signed-off-by: Dave Wysochanski &lt;dwysocha@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nfsd-5.3' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux</title>
<updated>2019-07-11T04:22:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T04:22:43+00:00</published>
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Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
 "Highlights:

   - Add a new /proc/fs/nfsd/clients/ directory which exposes some
     long-requested information about NFSv4 clients (like open files)
     and allows forced revocation of client state.

   - Replace the global duplicate reply cache by a cache per network
     namespace; previously, a request in one network namespace could
     incorrectly match an entry from another, though we haven't seen
     this in production. This is the last remaining container bug that
     I'm aware of; at this point you should be able to run separate
     nfsd's in each network namespace, each with their own set of
     exports, and everything should work.

   - Cleanup and modify lock code to show the pid of lockd as the owner
     of NLM locks. This is the correct version of the bugfix originally
     attempted in b8eee0e90f97 ("lockd: Show pid of lockd for remote
     locks")"

* tag 'nfsd-5.3' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (34 commits)
  nfsd: Make __get_nfsdfs_client() static
  nfsd: Make two functions static
  nfsd: Fix misuse of strlcpy
  sunrpc/cache: remove the exporting of cache_seq_next
  nfsd: decode implementation id
  nfsd: create xdr_netobj_dup helper
  nfsd: allow forced expiration of NFSv4 clients
  nfsd: create get_nfsdfs_clp helper
  nfsd4: show layout stateids
  nfsd: show lock and deleg stateids
  nfsd4: add file to display list of client's opens
  nfsd: add more information to client info file
  nfsd: escape high characters in binary data
  nfsd: copy client's address including port number to cl_addr
  nfsd4: add a client info file
  nfsd: make client/ directory names small ints
  nfsd: add nfsd/clients directory
  nfsd4: use reference count to free client
  nfsd: rename cl_refcount
  nfsd: persist nfsd filesystem across mounts
  ...
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Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
 "Highlights:

   - Add a new /proc/fs/nfsd/clients/ directory which exposes some
     long-requested information about NFSv4 clients (like open files)
     and allows forced revocation of client state.

   - Replace the global duplicate reply cache by a cache per network
     namespace; previously, a request in one network namespace could
     incorrectly match an entry from another, though we haven't seen
     this in production. This is the last remaining container bug that
     I'm aware of; at this point you should be able to run separate
     nfsd's in each network namespace, each with their own set of
     exports, and everything should work.

   - Cleanup and modify lock code to show the pid of lockd as the owner
     of NLM locks. This is the correct version of the bugfix originally
     attempted in b8eee0e90f97 ("lockd: Show pid of lockd for remote
     locks")"

* tag 'nfsd-5.3' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (34 commits)
  nfsd: Make __get_nfsdfs_client() static
  nfsd: Make two functions static
  nfsd: Fix misuse of strlcpy
  sunrpc/cache: remove the exporting of cache_seq_next
  nfsd: decode implementation id
  nfsd: create xdr_netobj_dup helper
  nfsd: allow forced expiration of NFSv4 clients
  nfsd: create get_nfsdfs_clp helper
  nfsd4: show layout stateids
  nfsd: show lock and deleg stateids
  nfsd4: add file to display list of client's opens
  nfsd: add more information to client info file
  nfsd: escape high characters in binary data
  nfsd: copy client's address including port number to cl_addr
  nfsd4: add a client info file
  nfsd: make client/ directory names small ints
  nfsd: add nfsd/clients directory
  nfsd4: use reference count to free client
  nfsd: rename cl_refcount
  nfsd: persist nfsd filesystem across mounts
  ...
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<entry>
<title>sunrpc/cache: remove the exporting of cache_seq_next</title>
<updated>2019-07-08T23:23:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Denis Efremov</name>
<email>efremov@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-08T16:14:23+00:00</published>
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The function cache_seq_next is declared static and marked
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, which is at best an odd combination. Because the
function is not used outside of the net/sunrpc/cache.c file it is
defined in, this commit removes the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() marking.

Fixes: d48cf356a130 ("SUNRPC: Remove non-RCU protected lookup")
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;efremov@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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The function cache_seq_next is declared static and marked
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, which is at best an odd combination. Because the
function is not used outside of the net/sunrpc/cache.c file it is
defined in, this commit removes the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() marking.

Fixes: d48cf356a130 ("SUNRPC: Remove non-RCU protected lookup")
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov &lt;efremov@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 363</title>
<updated>2019-06-05T15:37:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-31T08:09:24+00:00</published>
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  released under terms in gpl version 2 see copying

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 5 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel &lt;armijn@tjaldur.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531081035.689962394@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

  released under terms in gpl version 2 see copying

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-only

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 5 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Armijn Hemel &lt;armijn@tjaldur.nl&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190531081035.689962394@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sunrpc/cache: handle missing listeners better.</title>
<updated>2019-04-24T13:46:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-22T02:16:56+00:00</published>
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If no handler (such as rpc.mountd) has opened
a cache 'channel', the sunrpc cache responds to
all lookup requests with -ENOENT.  This is particularly
important for the auth.unix.gid cache which is
optional.

If the channel was open briefly and an upcall was written to it,
this upcall remains pending even when the handler closes the
channel.  When an upcall is pending, the code currently
doesn't check if there are still listeners, it only performs
that check before sending an upcall.

As the cache treads a recently closes channel (closed less than
30 seconds ago) as "potentially still open", there is a
reasonable sized window when a request can become pending
in a closed channel, and thereby block lookups indefinitely.

This can easily be demonstrated by running
  cat /proc/net/rpc/auth.unix.gid/channel

and then trying to mount an NFS filesystem from this host.  It
will block indefinitely (unless mountd is run with --manage-gids,
or krb5 is used).

When cache_check() finds that an upcall is pending, it should
perform the "cache_listeners_exist()" exist test.  If no
listeners do exist, the request should be negated.

With this change in place, there can still be a 30second wait on
mount, until the cache gives up waiting for a handler to come
back, but this is much better than an indefinite wait.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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If no handler (such as rpc.mountd) has opened
a cache 'channel', the sunrpc cache responds to
all lookup requests with -ENOENT.  This is particularly
important for the auth.unix.gid cache which is
optional.

If the channel was open briefly and an upcall was written to it,
this upcall remains pending even when the handler closes the
channel.  When an upcall is pending, the code currently
doesn't check if there are still listeners, it only performs
that check before sending an upcall.

As the cache treads a recently closes channel (closed less than
30 seconds ago) as "potentially still open", there is a
reasonable sized window when a request can become pending
in a closed channel, and thereby block lookups indefinitely.

This can easily be demonstrated by running
  cat /proc/net/rpc/auth.unix.gid/channel

and then trying to mount an NFS filesystem from this host.  It
will block indefinitely (unless mountd is run with --manage-gids,
or krb5 is used).

When cache_check() finds that an upcall is pending, it should
perform the "cache_listeners_exist()" exist test.  If no
listeners do exist, the request should be negated.

With this change in place, there can still be a 30second wait on
mount, until the cache gives up waiting for a handler to come
back, but this is much better than an indefinite wait.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sunrpc: don't mark uninitialised items as VALID.</title>
<updated>2019-04-05T23:57:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-05T00:34:40+00:00</published>
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A recent commit added a call to cache_fresh_locked()
when an expired item was found.
The call sets the CACHE_VALID flag, so it is important
that the item actually is valid.
There are two ways it could be valid:
1/ If -&gt;update has been called to fill in relevant content
2/ if CACHE_NEGATIVE is set, to say that content doesn't exist.

An expired item that is waiting for an update will be neither.
Setting CACHE_VALID will mean that a subsequent call to cache_put()
will be likely to dereference uninitialised pointers.

So we must make sure the item is valid, and we already have code to do
that in try_to_negate_entry().  This takes the hash lock and so cannot
be used directly, so take out the two lines that we need and use them.

Now cache_fresh_locked() is certain to be called only on
a valid item.

Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.35
Fixes: 4ecd55ea0742 ("sunrpc: fix cache_head leak due to queued request")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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A recent commit added a call to cache_fresh_locked()
when an expired item was found.
The call sets the CACHE_VALID flag, so it is important
that the item actually is valid.
There are two ways it could be valid:
1/ If -&gt;update has been called to fill in relevant content
2/ if CACHE_NEGATIVE is set, to say that content doesn't exist.

An expired item that is waiting for an update will be neither.
Setting CACHE_VALID will mean that a subsequent call to cache_put()
will be likely to dereference uninitialised pointers.

So we must make sure the item is valid, and we already have code to do
that in try_to_negate_entry().  This takes the hash lock and so cannot
be used directly, so take out the two lines that we need and use them.

Now cache_fresh_locked() is certain to be called only on
a valid item.

Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.35
Fixes: 4ecd55ea0742 ("sunrpc: fix cache_head leak due to queued request")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sunrpc: fix cache_head leak due to queued request</title>
<updated>2018-12-04T20:42:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vasily Averin</name>
<email>vvs@virtuozzo.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-28T08:45:57+00:00</published>
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After commit d202cce8963d, an expired cache_head can be removed from the
cache_detail's hash.

However, the expired cache_head may be waiting for a reply from a
previously submitted request. Such a cache_head has an increased
refcounter and therefore it won't be freed after cache_put(freeme).

Because the cache_head was removed from the hash it cannot be found
during cache_clean() and can be leaked forever, together with stalled
cache_request and other taken resources.

In our case we noticed it because an entry in the export cache was
holding a reference on a filesystem.

Fixes d202cce8963d ("sunrpc: never return expired entries in sunrpc_cache_lookup")
Cc: Pavel Tikhomirov &lt;ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.35
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin &lt;vvs@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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After commit d202cce8963d, an expired cache_head can be removed from the
cache_detail's hash.

However, the expired cache_head may be waiting for a reply from a
previously submitted request. Such a cache_head has an increased
refcounter and therefore it won't be freed after cache_put(freeme).

Because the cache_head was removed from the hash it cannot be found
during cache_clean() and can be leaked forever, together with stalled
cache_request and other taken resources.

In our case we noticed it because an entry in the export cache was
holding a reference on a filesystem.

Fixes d202cce8963d ("sunrpc: never return expired entries in sunrpc_cache_lookup")
Cc: Pavel Tikhomirov &lt;ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.35
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin &lt;vvs@virtuozzo.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>SUNRPC: Replace the cache_detail-&gt;hash_lock with a regular spinlock</title>
<updated>2018-10-29T20:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Trond Myklebust</name>
<email>trondmy@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-01T14:41:52+00:00</published>
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Now that the reader functions are all RCU protected, use a regular
spinlock rather than a reader/writer lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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Now that the reader functions are all RCU protected, use a regular
spinlock rather than a reader/writer lock.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields &lt;bfields@redhat.com&gt;
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