Re: [PATCH 1/1] NFSD: fix error handling in callbacks

[Olga Kornievskaia <olga.kornievskaia@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 10:10 AM Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
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> > On Mar 10, 2021, at 5:09 PM, Olga Kornievskaia <olga.kornievskaia@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 9:47 AM J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 08:59:51PM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2021-03-09 at 15:41 -0500, Olga Kornievskaia wrote:
> >>>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 3:22 PM Trond Myklebust <
> >>>> trondmy@hammerspace.com> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Tue, 2021-03-09 at 10:37 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >>>>>> On Tue, Mar 09, 2021 at 09:41:27AM -0500, Olga Kornievskaia
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>> From: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> When the server tries to do a callback and a client fails it
> >>>>>>> due to
> >>>>>>> authentication problems, we need the server to set callback
> >>>>>>> down
> >>>>>>> flag in RENEW so that client can recover.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I was looking at this.  It looks to me like this should really be
> >>>>>> just:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>        case 1:
> >>>>>>                if (task->tk_status)
> >>>>>>                        nfsd4_mark_cb_down(clp, task->tk_status);
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> If tk_status showed an error, and the ->done method doesn't
> >>>>>> return 0
> >>>>>> to
> >>>>>> tell us it something worth retrying, then the callback failed
> >>>>>> permanently, so we should mark the callback path down, regardless
> >>>>>> of
> >>>>>> the
> >>>>>> exact error.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I disagree. task->tk_status could be an unhandled NFSv4 error (see
> >>>>> nfsd4_cb_recall_done()). The client might, for instance, be in the
> >>>>> process of returning the delegation being recalled. Why should that
> >>>>> result in the callback channel being marked as down?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Are you talking about say the connection going down and server should
> >>>> just reconnect instead of recovering the callback channel. I assumed
> >>>> that connection break is something that's not  recoverable by the
> >>>> callback but perhaps I'm wrong.
> >>>
> >>> No. I'm saying that nfsd4_cb_recall_done() will return a value of '1'
> >>> for both task->tk_status == -EBADHANDLE and -NFS4ERR_BAD_STATEID. I'm
> >>> not seeing why either of those errors should be handled by marking the
> >>> callback channel as being down.
> >>>
> >>> Looking further, it seems that the same function will also return '1'
> >>> without checking the value of task->tk_status if the delegation has
> >>> been revoked or returned. So that would mean that even NFS4ERR_DELAY
> >>> could trigger the call to nfsd4_mark_cb_down() with the above change.
> >>
> >> Yeah, OK, that's wrong, apologies.
> >>
> >> I'm just a little worried about the attempt to enumerate transport level
> >> errors in nfsd4_cb_done().  Are we sure that EIO, ETIMEDOUT, EACCESS is
> >> the right list?
> >
> > Looking at call_transmit_status error handling, I don't think
> > connection errors are returned. Instead the code tries to fix the
> > connection by retrying unless the rpc_timeout is reached and then only
> > EIO,TIMEDOUT is returned.
> >
> > Can then my original patch be considered without resubmission?
>
> Bruce has authorized v1 of this patch, but that one has the
> uncorrected patch description. Post a v4?

v1's description is accurate. It reflects that only authentication
errors are handled.

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> >> --b.
> >>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --b.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Olga Kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
> >>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>> fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c | 1 +
> >>>>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> >>>>>>> index 052be5bf9ef5..7325592b456e 100644
> >>>>>>> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> >>>>>>> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4callback.c
> >>>>>>> @@ -1189,6 +1189,7 @@ static void nfsd4_cb_done(struct rpc_task
> >>>>>>> *task, void *calldata)
> >>>>>>>                switch (task->tk_status) {
> >>>>>>>                case -EIO:
> >>>>>>>                case -ETIMEDOUT:
> >>>>>>> +               case -EACCES:
> >>>>>>>                        nfsd4_mark_cb_down(clp, task-
> >>>>>>>> tk_status);
> >>>>>>>                }
> >>>>>>>                break;
> >>>>>>> --
> >>>>>>> 2.27.0
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Trond Myklebust
> >>>>> Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
> >>>>> trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Trond Myklebust
> >>> Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
> >>> trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com
>
> --
> Chuck Lever
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