Remove the hopelessly misguided ->dir_notify(). The only instance (cifs)
has been broken by design from the very beginning; the objects it creates
are never destroyed, keep references to struct file they can outlive, nothing
that could possibly evict them exists on close(2) path *and* no locking
whatsoever is done to prevent races with close(), should the previous, er,
deficiencies someday be dealt with.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Instead of creating the "filp" kmem_cache in vfs_caches_init(),
we can do it a litle be later in files_init(), so that filp_cachep
is static to fs/file_table.c
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[AV: rediffed on top of unification of init_fs]
Initialization of init_fs still uses the deprecated RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED macro.
This patch updates it to use the __RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED(lock) macro.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
With all the nameidata removal there's no point anymore for this helper.
Of the three callers left two will go away with the next lookup series
anyway.
Also add proper kerneldoc to inode_permission as this is the main
permission check routine now.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
No need for the nameidata in may_open - a struct path is enough.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
walk_init_root is a tiny helper that is marked __always_inline, has just
one caller and an unused argument. Just merge it into the caller.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We now pass on all MAY_ flags to the filesystems permission routines,
so remove the comment stating the contrary.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Explain that you really need to use the return value of d_path rather than
the buffer you passed into it.
Also fix the comment for seq_path(), the function arguments changed
recently but the comment hadn't been updated in sync.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
no function named d_put(), it should be dput().
Impact: fix document and comment, no functionality changed
Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@cn.fuijtsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.
Cc: Sergey S. Kostyliov <rathamahata@php4.ru>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: adilger@sun.com
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Ensure fast symlink targets are NUL-terminated, even if corrupted
on-disk.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
On-disk data corruption could cause a page link to have its i_size set
to PAGE_SIZE (or a multiple thereof) and its contents all non-NUL.
NUL-terminate the link name to ensure this doesn't cause further
problems for the kernel.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The result from readlink is being used to index into the link name
buffer without checking whether it is a valid length. If readlink
returns an error this will fault or cause memory corruption.
Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
Cc: ecryptfs-devel@lists.launchpad.net
Signed-off-by: Duane Griffin <duaneg@dghda.com>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The extra semicolon serves no purpose.
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Reviewed-by: Richard Genoud <richard.genoud@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
struct dentry is one of the most critical structures in the kernel. So it's
sad to see it going neglected.
With CONFIG_PROFILING turned on (which is probably the common case at least
for distros and kernel developers), sizeof(struct dcache) == 208 here
(64-bit). This gives 19 objects per slab.
I packed d_mounted into a hole, and took another 4 bytes off the inline
name length to take the padding out from the end of the structure. This
shinks it to 200 bytes. I could have gone the other way and increased the
length to 40, but I'm aiming for a magic number, read on...
I then got rid of the d_cookie pointer. This shrinks it to 192 bytes. Rant:
why was this ever a good idea? The cookie system should increase its hash
size or use a tree or something if lookups are a problem. Also the "fast
dcookie lookups" in oprofile should be moved into the dcookie code -- how
can oprofile possibly care about the dcookie_mutex? It gets dropped after
get_dcookie() returns so it can't be providing any sort of protection.
At 192 bytes, 21 objects fit into a 4K page, saving about 3MB on my system
with ~140 000 entries allocated. 192 is also a multiple of 64, so we get
nice cacheline alignment on 64 and 32 byte line systems -- any given dentry
will now require 3 cachelines to touch all fields wheras previously it
would require 4.
I know the inline name size was chosen quite carefully, however with the
reduction in cacheline footprint, it should actually be just about as fast
to do a name lookup for a 36 character name as it was before the patch (and
faster for other sizes). The memory footprint savings for names which are
<= 32 or > 36 bytes long should more than make up for the memory cost for
33-36 byte names.
Performance is a feature...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reorder struct inotify_device to remove 8 bytes of padding on 64bit
builds, reducing size to 128 bytes . Therefore allocating from a smaller
slab & using one fewer cachelines.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
----
Hi,
patch against 2.6.28-rc7.
built & tested on AMDX2 desktop.
I've not been able to send this to the listed inotify maintainers, I
just get mail failures. So I guessed filesystem was the best home for
it, hope that's ok.
regards
Richard
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add new LSM hooks for path-based checks. Call them on directory-modifying
operations at the points where we still know the vfsmount involved.
Signed-off-by: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Toshiharu Harada <haradats@nttdata.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'irq-fixes-for-linus-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sparseirq: move __weak symbols into separate compilation unit
sparseirq: work around __weak alias bug
sparseirq: fix hang with !SPARSE_IRQ
sparseirq: set lock_class for legacy irq when sparse_irq is selected
sparseirq: work around compiler optimizing away __weak functions
sparseirq: fix desc->lock init
sparseirq: do not printk when migrating IRQ descriptors
sparseirq: remove duplicated arch_early_irq_init()
irq: simplify for_each_irq_desc() usage
proc: remove ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ from stat.c
irq: for_each_irq_desc() move to irqnr.h
hrtimer: remove #include <linux/irq.h>
There is an imbalance for anonymous inodes. If the fops->owner field is set,
the module reference count of owner is decreases on release.
("filp_close" --> "__fput" ---> "fops_put")
On the other hand, anon_inode_getfd does not increase the module reference
count of owner. This causes two problems:
- if owner is set, the module refcount goes negative
- if owner is not set, the module can be unloaded while code is running
This patch changes anon_inode_getfd to be symmetric regarding fops->owner
handling.
I have checked all existing users of anon_inode_getfd. Noone sets fops->owner,
thats why nobody has seen the module refcount negative. The refcounting was
tested with a patched and unpatched KVM module.(see patch 2/2) I also did an
epoll_open/close test.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
We cannot use ubifs_err() macro with DBGKEY() and DBGKEY1(),
because this is racy and holding dbg_lock is needed. Use
dbg_err() instead, which does have the lock held.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
It is fine if there is not free space - we should still allow mounting
this FS. This patch relaxes the free space requirements and adds info
dumps.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
UBIFS does not disable compression if ui->flags is non-zero, e.g.
if the file has "sync" flag. This is because of the typo which
is fixed by this patch. The patch also adds a couple of useful
debugging prints.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
These are mostly long lines and wrong indentation warning
fixes. But also there are two volatile variables and
checkpatch.pl complains about them:
WARNING: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
+ volatile int gc_seq;
WARNING: Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt
+ volatile int gced_lnum;
Well, we anyway use smp_wmb() for c->gc_seq and c->gced_lnum, so
these 'volatile' modifiers can be just dropped.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
fs/ubifs/compress.c:111:8: warning: incorrect type in argument 5 (different signedness)
fs/ubifs/compress.c:111:8: expected unsigned int *dlen
fs/ubifs/compress.c:111:8: got int *out_len
fs/ubifs/compress.c:175:10: warning: incorrect type in argument 5 (different signedness)
fs/ubifs/compress.c:175:10: expected unsigned int *dlen
fs/ubifs/compress.c:175:10: got int *out_len
Fix this by adding a cast to (unsigned int *). We guarantee that
our lengths are small and no overflow is possible.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The 'make_free_space()' function was too complex and this patch
simplifies it. It also fixes a bug - the freespace test failed
straight away on UBI volumes with 512 bytes LEB size.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Do not force UBIFS return 0 used space when it is empty. It leads
to a situation when creating any file immediately produces tens of
used blocks, which looks very weird. It is better to be honest and
say that some blocks are used even if the FS is empty. And ext2
does the same.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
UBIFS stores uncommitted index size in c->budg_uncommitted_idx,
and this affect budgeting calculations. When mounting and
replaying, this variable is not updated, so we may end up
with "over-budgeting". This patch fixes the issue.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
UBIFS commits on unmount to make the next mount faster. Currently,
it commits only if there is more than LEB size bytes in the
journal. This is not very good, because journal size may be
large (512KiB). And there may be few deletions in the journal
which do not take much journal space, but which do introduce
a lot of TNC changes and make mount slow.
Thus, jurt remove this condition and always commit.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Always run commit in sync_fs, because even if the journal seems
to be almost empty, there may be a deletion which removes a large
file, which affects the index greatly. And because we want
better free space predictions after 'sync_fs()', we have to
commit.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Argh. The ->sync_fs call is called _before_ all inodes are flushed.
This means we first sync write buffers and commit, then all
inodes are synced, and we end up with unflushed write buffers!
Fix this by forcing synching all indoes from 'ubifs_sync_fs()'.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
The c->min_idx_lebs constant depends on c->old_idx_sz, which
is read from the master node. This means that we have to
initialize c->min_idx_lebs only after we have read the master
node.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hirofumi/fatfs-2.6:
fat: make sure to set d_ops in fat_get_parent
fat: fix duplicate addition of ->llseek handler
fat: drop negative dentry on rename() path
* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs: (184 commits)
[XFS] Fix race in xfs_write() between direct and buffered I/O with DMAPI
[XFS] handle unaligned data in xfs_bmbt_disk_get_all
[XFS] avoid memory allocations in xfs_fs_vcmn_err
[XFS] Fix speculative allocation beyond eof
[XFS] Remove XFS_BUF_SHUT() and friends
[XFS] Use the incore inode size in xfs_file_readdir()
[XFS] set b_error from bio error in xfs_buf_bio_end_io
[XFS] use inode_change_ok for setattr permission checking
[XFS] add a FMODE flag to make XFS invisible I/O less hacky
[XFS] resync headers with libxfs
[XFS] simplify projid check in xfs_rename
[XFS] replace b_fspriv with b_mount
[XFS] Remove unused tracing code
[XFS] Remove unnecessary assertion
[XFS] Remove unused variable in ktrace_free()
[XFS] Check return value of xfs_buf_get_noaddr()
[XFS] Fix hang after disallowed rename across directory quota domains
[XFS] Fix compile with CONFIG_COMPAT enabled
move inode tracing out of xfs_vnode.
move vn_iowait / vn_iowake into xfs_aops.c
...
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (70 commits)
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c: make nfs4_map_errors() static
rpc: add service field to new upcall
rpc: add target field to new upcall
nfsd: support callbacks with gss flavors
rpc: allow gss callbacks to client
rpc: pass target name down to rpc level on callbacks
nfsd: pass client principal name in rsc downcall
rpc: implement new upcall
rpc: store pointer to pipe inode in gss upcall message
rpc: use count of pipe openers to wait for first open
rpc: track number of users of the gss upcall pipe
rpc: call release_pipe only on last close
rpc: add an rpc_pipe_open method
rpc: minor gss_alloc_msg cleanup
rpc: factor out warning code from gss_pipe_destroy_msg
rpc: remove unnecessary assignment
NFS: remove unused status from encode routines
NFS: increment number of operations in each encode routine
NFS: fix comment placement in nfs4xdr.c
NFS: fix tabs in nfs4xdr.c
...
* 'for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits)
bio: get rid of bio_vec clearing
bounce: don't rely on a zeroed bio_vec list
cciss: simplify parameters to deregister_disk function
cfq-iosched: fix race between exiting queue and exiting task
loop: Do not call loop_unplug for not configured loop device.
loop: Flush possible running bios when loop device is released.
alpha: remove dead BIO_VMERGE_BOUNDARY
Get rid of CONFIG_LSF
block: make blk_softirq_init() static
block: use min_not_zero in blk_queue_stack_limits
block: add one-hit cache for disk partition lookup
cfq-iosched: remove limit of dispatch depth of max 4 times quantum
nbd: tell the block layer that it is not a rotational device
block: get rid of elevator_t typedef
aio: make the lookup_ioctx() lockless
bio: add support for inlining a number of bio_vecs inside the bio
bio: allow individual slabs in the bio_set
bio: move the slab pointer inside the bio_set
bio: only mempool back the largest bio_vec slab cache
block: don't use plugging on SSD devices
...
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, sparseirq: clean up Kconfig entry
x86: turn CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ off by default
sparseirq: fix numa_migrate_irq_desc dependency and comments
sparseirq: add kernel-doc notation for new member in irq_desc, -v2
locking, irq: enclose irq_desc_lock_class in CONFIG_LOCKDEP
sparseirq, xen: make sure irq_desc is allocated for interrupts
sparseirq: fix !SMP building, #2
x86, sparseirq: move irq_desc according to smp_affinity, v7
proc: enclose desc variable of show_stat() in CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
sparse irqs: add irqnr.h to the user headers list
sparse irqs: handle !GENIRQ platforms
sparseirq: fix !SMP && !PCI_MSI && !HT_IRQ build
sparseirq: fix Alpha build failure
sparseirq: fix typo in !CONFIG_IO_APIC case
x86, MSI: pass irq_cfg and irq_desc
x86: MSI start irq numbering from nr_irqs_gsi
x86: use NR_IRQS_LEGACY
sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes
genirq: record IRQ_LEVEL in irq_desc[]
irq.h: remove padding from irq_desc on 64bits
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
hrtimers: fix warning in kernel/hrtimer.c
x86: make sure we really have an hpet mapping before using it
x86: enable HPET on Fujitsu u9200
linux/timex.h: cleanup for userspace
posix-timers: simplify de_thread()->exit_itimers() path
posix-timers: check ->it_signal instead of ->it_pid to validate the timer
posix-timers: use "struct pid*" instead of "struct task_struct*"
nohz: suppress needless timer reprogramming
clocksource, acpi_pm.c: put acpi_pm_read_slow() under CONFIG_PCI
nohz: no softirq pending warnings for offline cpus
hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix
hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes, fix hotplug
hrtimer: removing all ur callback modes
x86: correct link to HPET timer specification
rtc-cmos: export second NVRAM bank
Fixed up conflicts in sound/drivers/pcsp/pcsp.c and sound/core/hrtimer.c
manually.
nfs4_map_errors() can become static.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Impact: cleanup
seq_bitmap just calls bitmap_scnprintf on the bits: that arg can be const.
Similarly, seq_cpumask just calls seq_bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
We don't need to clear the memory used for adding bio_vec entries,
since nobody should be looking at members unitialized. Any valid
use should be below bio->bi_vcnt, and that members up until that count
must be valid since they were added through bio_add_page().
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We have two seperate config entries for large devices/files. One
is CONFIG_LBD that guards just the devices, the other is CONFIG_LSF
that handles large files. This doesn't make a lot of sense, you typically
want both or none. So get rid of CONFIG_LSF and change CONFIG_LBD wording
to indicate that it covers both.
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
The mm->ioctx_list is currently protected by a reader-writer lock,
so we always grab that lock on the read side for doing ioctx
lookups. As the workload is extremely reader biased, turn this into
an rcu hlist so we can make lookup_ioctx() lockless. Get rid of
the rwlock and use a spinlock for providing update side exclusion.
There's usually only 1 entry on this list, so it doesn't make sense
to look into fancier data structures.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
When we go and allocate a bio for IO, we actually do two allocations.
One for the bio itself, and one for the bi_io_vec that holds the
actual pages we are interested in.
This feature inlines a definable amount of io vecs inside the bio
itself, so we eliminate the bio_vec array allocation for IO's up
to a certain size. It defaults to 4 vecs, which is typically 16k
of IO.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Instead of having a global bio slab cache, add a reference to one
in each bio_set that is created. This allows for personalized slabs
in each bio_set, so that they can have bios of different sizes.
This means we can personalize the bios we return. File systems may
want to embed the bio inside another structure, to avoid allocation
more items (and stuffing them in ->bi_private) after the get a bio.
Or we may want to embed a number of bio_vecs directly at the end
of a bio, to avoid doing two allocations to return a bio. This is now
possible.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
We only very rarely need the mempool backing, so it makes sense to
get rid of all but one of the mempool in a bio_set. So keep the
largest bio_vec count mempool so we can always honor the largest
allocation, and "upgrade" callers that fail.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Allow the scsi request REQ_QUIET flag to be propagated to the buffer
file system layer. The basic ideas is to pass the flag from the scsi
request to the bio (block IO) and then to the buffer layer. The buffer
layer can then suppress needless printks.
This patch declutters the kernel log by removed the 40-50 (per lun)
buffer io error messages seen during a boot in my multipath setup . It
is a good chance any real errors will be missed in the "noise" it the
logs without this patch.
During boot I see blocks of messages like
"
__ratelimit: 211 callbacks suppressed
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242847
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 1
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242878
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242879
Buffer I/O error on device sdm, logical block 5242872
"
in my logs.
My disk environment is multipath fiber channel using the SCSI_DH_RDAC
code and multipathd. This topology includes an "active" and "ghost"
path for each lun. IO's to the "ghost" path will never complete and the
SCSI layer, via the scsi device handler rdac code, quick returns the IOs
to theses paths and sets the REQ_QUIET scsi flag to suppress the scsi
layer messages.
I am wanting to extend the QUIET behavior to include the buffer file
system layer to deal with these errors as well. I have been running this
patch for a while now on several boxes without issue. A few runs of
bonnie++ show no noticeable difference in performance in my setup.
Thanks for John Stultz for the quiet_error finalization.
Submitted-by: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (144 commits)
powerpc/44x: Support 16K/64K base page sizes on 44x
powerpc: Force memory size to be a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
powerpc/32: Wire up the trampoline code for kdump
powerpc/32: Add the ability for a classic ppc kernel to be loaded at 32M
powerpc/32: Allow __ioremap on RAM addresses for kdump kernel
powerpc/32: Setup OF properties for kdump
powerpc/32/kdump: Implement crash_setup_regs() using ppc_save_regs()
powerpc: Prepare xmon_save_regs for use with kdump
powerpc: Remove default kexec/crash_kernel ops assignments
powerpc: Make default kexec/crash_kernel ops implicit
powerpc: Setup OF properties for ppc32 kexec
powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug
powerpc: Fix KVM build on ppc440
powerpc/cell: add QPACE as a separate Cell platform
powerpc/cell: fix build breakage with CONFIG_SPUFS disabled
powerpc/mpc5200: fix error paths in PSC UART probe function
powerpc/mpc5200: add rts/cts handling in PSC UART driver
powerpc/mpc5200: Make PSC UART driver update serial errors counters
powerpc/mpc5200: Remove obsolete code from mpc5200 MDIO driver
powerpc/mpc5200: Add MDMA/UDMA support to MPC5200 ATA driver
...
Fix trivial conflict in drivers/char/Makefile as per Paul's directions
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits)
net: Allow dependancies of FDDI & Tokenring to be modular.
igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled.
net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes.
gro: Fix potential use after free
sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits
sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it
sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics
sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests
sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests
sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test
sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes
sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues
802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header
802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer
802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer
802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system
802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool
802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool
802.3ad: make ntt bool
ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools.
...
Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due
to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of
doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (31 commits)
[CIFS] Remove redundant test
[CIFS] make sure that DFS pathnames are properly formed
Remove an already-checked error condition in SendReceiveBlockingLock
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
[CIFS] Streamline SendReceive[2] by using "goto out:" in an error condition
Slightly streamline SendReceive[2]
Check the return value of cifs_sign_smb[2]
[CIFS] Cleanup: Move the check for too large R/W requests
[CIFS] Slightly simplify wait_for_free_request(), remove an unnecessary "else" branch
Simplify allocate_mid() slightly: Remove some unnecessary "else" branches
[CIFS] In SendReceive, move consistency check out of the mutexed region
cifs: store password in tcon
cifs: have calc_lanman_hash take more granular args
cifs: zero out session password before freeing it
cifs: fix wait_for_response to time out sleeping processes correctly
[CIFS] Can not mount with prefixpath if root directory of share is inaccessible
[CIFS] various minor cleanups pointed out by checkpatch script
[CIFS] fix typo
[CIFS] remove sparse warning
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Fix trivial conflict in fs/cifs/cifs_fs_sb.h due to comment changes for
the CIFS_MOUNT_xyz bit definitions between cifs updates and security
updates.
* 'tracing-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (241 commits)
sched, trace: update trace_sched_wakeup()
tracing/ftrace: don't trace on early stage of a secondary cpu boot, v3
Revert "x86: disable X86_PTRACE_BTS"
ring-buffer: prevent false positive warning
ring-buffer: fix dangling commit race
ftrace: enable format arguments checking
x86, bts: memory accounting
x86, bts: add fork and exit handling
ftrace: introduce tracing_reset_online_cpus() helper
tracing: fix warnings in kernel/trace/trace_sched_switch.c
tracing: fix warning in kernel/trace/trace.c
tracing/ring-buffer: remove unused ring_buffer size
trace: fix task state printout
ftrace: add not to regex on filtering functions
trace: better use of stack_trace_enabled for boot up code
trace: add a way to enable or disable the stack tracer
x86: entry_64 - introduce FTRACE_ frame macro v2
tracing/ftrace: add the printk-msg-only option
tracing/ftrace: use preempt_enable_no_resched_notrace in ring_buffer_time_stamp()
x86, bts: correctly report invalid bts records
...
Fixed up trivial conflict in scripts/recordmcount.pl due to SH bits
being already partly merged by the SH merge.
In fs/cifs/cifssmb.c, pLockData is tested for being NULL at the beginning
of the function, and not reassigned subsequently.
A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
The paths in a DFS request are supposed to only have a single preceding
backslash, but we are sending them with a double backslash. This is
exposing a bug in Windows where it also sends a path in the response
that has a double backslash.
The existing code that builds the mount option string however expects a
double backslash prefix in a couple of places when it tries to use the
path returned by build_path_from_dentry. Fix compose_mount_options to
expect properly formed DFS paths (single backslash at front).
Also clean up error handling in that function. There was a possible
NULL pointer dereference and situations where a partially built option
string would be returned.
Tested against Samba 3.0.28-ish server and Samba 3.3 and Win2k8.
CC: Stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Remove an already-checked error condition in SendReceiveBlockingLock
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Streamline SendReceiveBlockingLock: Use "goto out:" in an error condition
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Slightly streamline SendReceive[2]
Remove an else branch by naming the error condition what it is
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
This is no functional change, because in the "if" branch we do an early
"return 0;".
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Simplify allocate_mid() slightly: Remove some unnecessary "else" branches
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
inbuf->smb_buf_length does not change in in wait_for_free_request() or in
allocate_mid(), so we can check it early.
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: store password in tcon
Each tcon has its own password for share-level security. Store it in
the tcon and wipe it clean and free it when freeing the tcon. When
doing the tree connect with share-level security, use the tcon password
instead of the session password.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: have calc_lanman_hash take more granular args
We need to use this routine to encrypt passwords associated with the
tcon too. Don't assume that the password will be attached to the
smb_session.
Also, make some of the values in the lower encryption functions
const since they aren't changed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: zero out session password before freeing it
...just to be on the safe side.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifs: fix wait_for_response to time out sleeping processes correctly
The current scheme that CIFS uses to sleep and wait for a response is
not quite what we want. After sending a request, wait_for_response puts
the task to sleep with wait_event(). One of the conditions for
wait_event is a timeout (using time_after()).
The problem with this is that there is no guarantee that the process
will ever be woken back up. If the server stops sending data, then
cifs_demultiplex_thread will leave its response queue sleeping.
I think the only thing that saves us here is the fact that
cifs_dnotify_thread periodically (every 15s) wakes up sleeping processes
on all response_q's that have calls in flight. This makes for
unnecessary wakeups of some processes. It also means large variability
in the timeouts since they're all woken up at once.
Instead of this, put the tasks to sleep with wait_event_timeout. This
makes them wake up on their own if they time out. With this change,
cifs_dnotify_thread should no longer be needed.
I've been testing this in conjunction with some other patches that I'm
working on. It doesn't seem to affect performance at all with with heavy
I/O. Identical iozone -ac runs complete in almost exactly the same time
(<1% difference in times).
Thanks to Wasrshi Nimara for initially pointing this out. Wasrshi, it
would be nice to know whether this patch also helps your testcase.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Wasrshi Nimara <warshinimara@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Windows allows you to deny access to the top of a share, but permit access to
a directory lower in the path. With the prefixpath feature of cifs
(ie mounting \\server\share\directory\subdirectory\etc.) this should have
worked if the user specified a prefixpath which put the root of the mount
at a directory to which he had access, but we still were doing a lookup
on the root of the share (null path) when we should have been doing it on
the prefixpath subdirectory.
This fixes Samba bug # 5925
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Some applications/subsystems require mandatory byte range locks
(as is used for Windows/DOS/OS2 etc). Sending advisory (posix style)
byte range lock requests (instead of mandatory byte range locks) can
lead to problems for these applications (which expect that other
clients be prevented from writing to portions of the file which
they have locked and are updating). This mount option allows
mounting cifs with the new mount option "forcemand" (or
"forcemandatorylock") in order to have the cifs client use mandatory
byte range locks (ie SMB/CIFS/Windows/NTFS style locks) rather than
posix byte range lock requests, even if the server would support
posix byte range lock requests. This has no effect if the server
does not support the CIFS Unix Extensions (since posix style locks
require support for the CIFS Unix Extensions), but for mounts
to Samba servers this can be helpful for Wine and applications
that require mandatory byte range locks.
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
CC: Alexander Bokovoy <ab@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
In order to unify the smb_send routines, we need to reorganize the
routines that connect the sockets. Have ipv4_connect take a
TCP_Server_Info pointer and get the necessary fields from that.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
struct smb_vol is fairly large, it's probably best to kzalloc it...
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Clean up cifs_mount a bit by moving the code that creates new TCP
sessions into a separate function. Have that function search for an
existing socket and then create a new one if one isn't found.
Also reorganize the initializion of TCP_Server_Info a bit to prepare
for cleanup of the socket connection code.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
The current code for setting the session serverName is IPv4-specific.
Allow it to be an IPv6 address as well. Use NIP* macros to set the
format.
This also entails increasing the length of the serverName field, so
declare a new macro for RFC1001 name length and use it in the
appropriate places.
Finally, drop the unicode_server_Name field from TCP_Server_Info since
it's not used. We can add it back later if needed, but for now it just
wastes memory.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Now that tasks sleeping in wait_for_response will time out on their own,
we're not reliant on the dnotify thread to do this. Mark it as
experimental code for now.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
cifsd can outlive the last cifs mount. We need to hold a module
reference until it exits to prevent someone from unplugging
the module until we're ready.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Have cifs_show_options display the addr and prefixpath options in
/proc/mounts. Reduce struct dereferencing by adding some local
variables.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
arch_setup_additional_pages currently gets two arguments, the binary
format descripton and an indication if the process uses an executable
stack or not. The second argument is not used by anybody, it could
be removed without replacement.
What actually does make sense is to pass an indication if the process
uses the elf interpreter or not. The glibc code will not use anything
from the vdso if the process does not use the dynamic linker, so for
statically linked binaries the architecture backend can choose not
to map the vdso.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The iolock is dropped and re-acquired around the call to XFS_SEND_NAMESP().
While the iolock is released the file can become cached. We then
'goto retry' and - if we are doing direct I/O - mapping->nrpages may now be
non zero but need_i_mutex will be zero and we will hit the WARN_ON().
Since we have dropped the I/O lock then the file size may have also changed
so what we need to do here is 'goto start' like we do for the XFS_SEND_DATA()
DMAPI event.
We also need to update the filesize before releasing the iolock so that
needs to be done before the XFS_SEND_NAMESP event. If we drop the iolock
before setting the filesize we could race with a truncate.
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
This patch adds server-side support for callbacks other than AUTH_SYS.
Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This patch adds client-side support to allow for callbacks other than
AUTH_SYS.
Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The rpc client needs to know the principal that the setclientid was done
as, so it can tell gssd who to authenticate to.
Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Two principals are involved in krb5 authentication: the target, who we
authenticate *to* (normally the name of the server, like
nfs/server.citi.umich.edu@CITI.UMICH.EDU), and the source, we we
authenticate *as* (normally a user, like bfields@UMICH.EDU)
In the case of NFSv4 callbacks, the target of the callback should be the
source of the client's setclientid call, and the source should be the
nfs server's own principal.
Therefore we allow svcgssd to pass down the name of the principal that
just authenticated, so that on setclientid we can store that principal
name with the new client, to be used later on callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <aglo@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
3 call sites look at hdr.status before returning success.
hdr.status must be zero in this case so there's no point in this.
Currently, hdr.status is correctly processed at decode_op_hdr time
if the op status cannot be decoded.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
When there are no op replies encoded in the compound reply
hdr.status still contains the overall status of the compound
rpc. This can happen, e.g., when the server returns a
NFS4ERR_MINOR_VERS_MISMATCH error.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Marten Gajda <marten.gajda@fernuni-hagen.de> states:
I tracked the problem down to the function nfs4_do_open_expired.
Within this function _nfs4_open_expired is called and may return
-NFS4ERR_DELAY. When a further call to _nfs4_open_expired is
executed and does not return -NFS4ERR_DELAY the "exception.retry"
variable is not reset to 0, causing the loop to iterate again
(and as long as err != -NFS4ERR_DELAY, probably forever)
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Hi.
I've been looking at a bugzilla which describes a problem where
a customer was advised to use either the "noac" or "actimeo=0"
mount options to solve a consistency problem that they were
seeing in the file attributes. It turned out that this solution
did not work reliably for them because sometimes, the local
attribute cache was believed to be valid and not timed out.
(With an attribute cache timeout of 0, the cache should always
appear to be timed out.)
In looking at this situation, it appears to me that the problem
is that the attribute cache timeout code has an off-by-one
error in it. It is assuming that the cache is valid in the
region, [read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo]. The
cache should be considered valid only in the region,
[read_cache_jiffies, read_cache_jiffies + attrtimeo). With this
change, the options, "noac" and "actimeo=0", work as originally
expected.
This problem was previously addressed by special casing the
attrtimeo == 0 case. However, since the problem is only an off-
by-one error, the cleaner solution is address the off-by-one
error and thus, not require the special case.
Thanx...
ps
Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This ensures that we don't have to look up the dentry again after we return
the delegation if we know that the directory didn't change.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Currently, the callback server is listening on IPv6 if it is enabled. This
means that IPv4 addresses will always be mapped.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the client is not using a delegation, the right thing to do is to return
it as soon as possible. This helps reduce the amount of state the server
has to track, as well as reducing the potential for conflicts with other
clients.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Let the actual delegreturn stuff be run in the state manager thread rather
than allocating a separate kthread.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
We really shouldn't be resetting the sequence ids when doing state
expiration recovery, since we don't know if the server still remembers our
previous state owners. There are servers out there that do attempt to
preserve client state even if the lease has expired. Such a server would
only release that state if a conflicting OPEN request occurs.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Add a delegation cleanup phase to the state management loop, and do the
NFS4ERR_CB_PATH_DOWN recovery there.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Add a flag to mark delegations as requiring return, then run a garbage
collector. In the future, this will allow for more flexible delegation
management, where delegations may be marked for return if it turns out
that they are not being referenced.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
NFSv4 defines a number of state errors which the client does not currently
handle. Among those we should worry about are:
NFS4ERR_ADMIN_REVOKED - the server's administrator revoked our locks
and/or delegations.
NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID - the client and server are out of sync, possibly
due to a delegation return racing with an OPEN
request.
NFS4ERR_OPENMODE - the client attempted to do something not sanctioned
by the open mode of the stateid. Should normally just
occur as a result of a delegation return race.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Now that we're using the flags to indicate state that needs to be
recovered, as well as having implemented proper refcounting and spinlocking
on the state and open_owners, we can get rid of nfs_client->cl_sem. The
only remaining case that was dubious was the file locking, and that case is
now covered by the nfsi->rwsem.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The unlock path is currently failing to take the nfs_client->cl_sem read
lock, and hence the recovery path may see locks disappear from underneath
it.
Also ensure that it takes the nfs_inode->rwsem read lock so that it there
is no conflict with delegation recalls.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the client for some reason is not able to recover all its state within
the time allotted for the grace period, and the server reboots again, the
client is not allowed to recover the state that was 'lost' using reboot
recovery.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Without an extra lock, we cannot just assume that the delegation->inode is
valid when we're traversing the rcu-protected nfs_client lists. Use the
delegation->lock to ensure that it is truly valid.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
When we can update_open_stateid(), we need to be certain that we don't
race with a delegation return. While we could do this by grabbing the
nfs_client->cl_lock, a dedicated spin lock in the delegation structure
will scale better.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the admin has specified the "noresvport" option for an NFS mount
point, the kernel's NFS client uses an unprivileged source port for
the main NFS transport. The kernel's lockd client should use an
unprivileged port in this case as well.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
If the admin has specified the "noresvport" option for an NFS mount
point, the kernel's NFS client uses an unprivileged source port for
the main NFS transport. The kernel's mountd client should use an
unprivileged port in this case as well.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
The standard default security setting for NFS is AUTH_SYS. An NFS
client connects to NFS servers via a privileged source port and a
fixed standard destination port (2049). The client sends raw uid and
gid numbers to identify users making NFS requests, and the server
assumes an appropriate authority on the client has vetted these
values because the source port is privileged.
On Linux, by default in-kernel RPC services use a privileged port in
the range between 650 and 1023 to avoid using source ports of well-
known IP services. Using such a small range limits the number of NFS
mount points and the number of unique NFS servers to which a client
can connect concurrently.
An NFS client can use unprivileged source ports to expand the range of
source port numbers, allowing more concurrent server connections and
more NFS mount points. Servers must explicitly allow NFS connections
from unprivileged ports for this to work.
In the past, bumping the value of the sunrpc.max_resvport sysctl on
the client would permit the NFS client to use unprivileged ports.
Bumping this setting also changes the maximum port number used by
other in-kernel RPC services, some of which still required a port
number less than 1023.
This is exacerbated by the way source port numbers are chosen by the
Linux RPC client, which starts at the top of the range and works
downwards. It means that bumping the maximum means all RPC services
requesting a source port will likely get an unprivileged port instead
of a privileged one.
Changing this setting effects all NFS mount points on a client. A
sysadmin could not selectively choose which mount points would use
non-privileged ports and which could not.
Lastly, this mechanism of expanding the limit on the number of NFS
mount points was entirely undocumented.
To address the need for the NFS client to use a large range of source
ports without interfering with the activity of other in-kernel RPC
services, we introduce a new NFS mount option. This option explicitly
tells only the NFS client to use a non-privileged source port when
communicating with the NFS server for one specific mount point.
This new mount option is called "resvport," like the similar NFS mount
option on FreeBSD and Mac OS X. A sister patch for nfs-utils will be
submitted that documents this new option in nfs(5).
The default setting for this new mount option requires the NFS client
to use a privileged port, as before. Explicitly specifying the
"noresvport" mount option allows the NFS client to use an unprivileged
source port for this mount point when connecting to the NFS server
port.
This mount option is supported only for text-based NFS mounts.
[ Sidebar: it is widely known that security mechanisms based on the
use of privileged source ports are ineffective. However, the NFS
client can combine the use of unprivileged ports with the use of
secure authentication mechanisms, such as Kerberos. This allows a
large number of connections and mount points while ensuring a useful
level of security.
Eventually we may change the default setting for this option
depending on the security flavor used for the mount. For example,
if the mount is using only AUTH_SYS, then the default setting will
be "resvport;" if the mount is using a strong security flavor such
as krb5, the default setting will be "noresvport." ]
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
[Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com: Fixed a bug whereby nfs4_init_client()
was being called with incorrect arguments.]
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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