Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:57429 "EHLO smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751114AbaEALun (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2014 07:50:43 -0400 Message-ID: <5362350A.6040402@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 01 May 2014 07:50:34 -0400 From: Mark Lord MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J. Bruce Fields" , Jeff Layton CC: "J. Bruce Fields" , Albert Fluegel , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: linux-3.14 nfsd regression References: <533D8D73.1090603@pobox.com> <20140403171643.GB28790@pad.redhat.com> <533D9F8A.6030001@pobox.com> <20140403145504.3b04170e@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20140403201627.GC8343@fieldses.org> <20140403192146.79679909@tlielax.poochiereds.net> <20140404135842.GB17594@fieldses.org> In-Reply-To: <20140404135842.GB17594@fieldses.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 14-04-04 09:58 AM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 07:21:46PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote: >> So according to the RFC you have to encode both the mode bits and the >> ftype for v2. The type bits seem to be removed from the mode in NFSv3 >> though, so perhaps we should only be doing that masking in versions >> above v2? > > Right, the problematic patch applied the same mask in both v2 and v3 > cases, so I'm reverting just the v2 part (see below). > >> With a quick check, it looks like the v3 code doesn't rely on those bits >> and I imagine v4 doesn't either. >> >> It might also be nice to have the client v2 decode_fattr function to >> throw a warning if the server sends us mismatched type bits and ftype >> values. That would have helped us catch this sooner... > > Yes, that might be a reasonable thing to do, though I don't know if it's > worth it. > > --b. > > commit 35a8dff14e76c00e5b52140290cfb498dc2454a0 > Author: J. Bruce Fields > Date: Thu Apr 3 15:10:35 2014 -0400 > > nfsd: revert v2 half of "nfsd: don't return high mode bits" > > This reverts the part of commit 6e14b46b91fee8a049b0940333ce13a820beaaa5 > that changes NFSv2 behavior. > > Mark Lord found that it broke nfs-root for Linux clients, because it > broke NFSv2. > > In fact, from RFC 1094: > > "Notice that the file type is specified both in the mode bits > and in the file type. This is really a bug in the protocol and > will be fixed in future versions." > > So NFSv2 clients really are expected to depend on the high bits of the > mode. > > Cc: stable@kernel.org > Reported-by: Mark Lord > Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields > > diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c > index b17d932..9c769a4 100644 > --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c > +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c > @@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ encode_fattr(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *p, struct svc_fh *fhp, > type = (stat->mode & S_IFMT); > > *p++ = htonl(nfs_ftypes[type >> 12]); > - *p++ = htonl((u32) (stat->mode & S_IALLUGO)); > + *p++ = htonl((u32) stat->mode); > *p++ = htonl((u32) stat->nlink); > *p++ = htonl((u32) from_kuid(&init_user_ns, stat->uid)); > *p++ = htonl((u32) from_kgid(&init_user_ns, stat->gid)); > Still a regression in 3.14.2 now. Anyone got plans to push this patch out to mainline, as well as +stable ? -- Mark Lord Real-Time Remedies Inc. mlord@pobox.com