Re: Strange segmentation violations of rpc.gssd in Debian Buster

[Doug Nazar <nazard@nazar.ca>]

On 2020-06-26 08:31, Kraus, Sebastian wrote:
> Hi Doug, Dear Bruce,
> FYI, I filed a bug with nfs-common package in Debian Buster:
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=963746
>
> Hope this helps to track down the problem further and shed some light on the mysterious segfaults of rpc.gssd.

Ok, I think I see what's going on. The struct clnt_info is getting freed 
out from under the upcall thread. In this case it immediately got reused 
for another client which zeroed the struct and was in the process of 
looking up the info for it's client, hence the protocol & server fields 
were null in the upcall thread.

Explains why I haven't been able to recreate it. Thanks for the stack 
trace Sebastian.

Bruce, I can't see any locking/reference counting around struct 
clnt_info. It just gets destroyed when receiving the inotify. Or should 
it be deep copied when starting an upcall? Am I missing something?

Doug

Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: inotify event for topdir (nfsd4_cb) - ev->wd (5) ev->name (clnt50e) ev->mask (0x40000100)
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: handle_gssd_upcall: 'mech=krb5 uid=0 target=host@client.domain.tu-berlin.de service=nfs enctypes=18,17,16,23,3,1,2 ' (nfsd4_cb/clnt50e)
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: krb5_use_machine_creds: uid 0 tgtname host@client.domain.tu-berlin.de
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: inotify event for clntdir (nfsd4_cb/clnt50e) - ev->wd (75) ev->name (krb5) ev->mask (0x00000200)
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: inotify event for clntdir (nfsd4_cb/clnt50e) - ev->wd (75) ev->name (gssd) ev->mask (0x00000200)
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: inotify event for clntdir (nfsd4_cb/clnt50e) - ev->wd (75) ev->name (info) ev->mask (0x00000200)
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: inotify event for clntdir (nfsd4_cb/clnt50e) - ev->wd (75) ev->name (<?>) ev->mask (0x00008000)
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: inotify event for topdir (nfsd4_cb) - ev->wd (5) ev->name (clnt50f) ev->mask (0x40000100)
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: Full hostname for '' is 'client.domain.tu-berlin.de'
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: Full hostname for 'server.domain.tu-berlin.de' is 'server.domain.tu-berlin.de'
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: Success getting keytab entry for 'nfs/server.domain.tu-berlin.de@TU-BERLIN.DE'
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: INFO: Credentials in CC 'FILE:/tmp/krb5ccmachine_TU-BERLIN.DE' are good until 1593101766
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: INFO: Credentials in CC 'FILE:/tmp/krb5ccmachine_TU-BERLIN.DE' are good until 1593101766
Jun 25 11:46:08 server rpc.gssd[6356]: creating (null) client for server (null)
Jun 25 11:46:08 all kernel: rpc.gssd[14174]: segfault at 0 ip 000056233fff038e sp 00007fb2eaeb9880 error 4 in rpc.gssd[56233ffed000+9000]


Thread 1 (Thread 0x7fb2eaeba700 (LWP 14174)):
#0  0x000056233fff038e in create_auth_rpc_client (clp=clp@entry=0x562341008fa0, tgtname=tgtname@entry=0x562341011c8f "host@client.domain.tu-berlin.de", clnt_return=clnt_return@entry=0x7fb2eaeb9de8, auth_return=auth_return@entry=0x7fb2eaeb9d50, uid=uid@entry=0, cred=cred@entry=0x0, authtype=0) at gssd_proc.c:352

Thread 2 (Thread 0x7fb2eb6d9740 (LWP 6356)):
#12 0x000056233ffef82c in gssd_read_service_info (clp=0x562341008fa0, dirfd=11) at gssd.c:326