From: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>
Subject: Please assist in locating NFS race in old vendor kernel
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 00:15:57 +0400
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Hello.

I'm currently working with an embedded system based on very old,=20
2.4.17-based, vendor kernel.

Among other issues, there is a race in NFS code, that I'm currently trying=
=20
to understand and fix.

The race is the following.
Some i/o is done on a file located on NFS-mounted filesystem. At some=20
moment, ftruncate() is called. And in very rare but still reproducable=20
cases:
=2D first inode->i_size is set to the new value, in process context
=2D then inode->i_size is restored to old value, in rpciod context.
I was able to catch this by adding some logging to the point where=20
__nfs_refresh_inode() updates inode->i_size.

Looks like inode size is being broken (by restore of old value) by=20
completeion handler of RPC operation that was started before ftruncate().

The test on which the race is reproduced more or less reliably,=20
is "fsx-linux" from LTP suite.

System in question is SMP - thus making race happen more often.

I guess the race is long fixed in more modern kernels.
But I'm not familiar with NFS code, and after some attempts to find=20
something I feel lost.

Could someone more familiar with NFS implementaion please point me where to=
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look?

Nikita

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