Re: [3.0.0+][Regression][Bisected] CIFS: getdents() broken for large dirs

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 02:30:35 +0200
Jan Seiffert <kaffeemonster@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Please CC, as not subscibed.
> 
> Looks like something broke CIFS.
> Kernel 3.0.0 works, master after the CIFS merge does not ATM.
> 
> Example cifs mount is:
> $ mount
> ...
> //server/portage on /usr/portage type cifs (rw,mand)
> 
> Server is:
> $ smbd --version
> Version 3.4.12
> 
> Actual Output is:
> $ ls -l /usr/portage/ | wc -l
> ls: reading directory /usr/portage/: input/output error
> 1
> $ ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles | wc -l
> 105
> 
> Expected Output:
> $ ls -l /usr/portage/ | wc -l
> 170
> $ ls -l /usr/portage/distfiles/ | wc -l
> 47470
> 
> /usr/portage contains a lot of directories, /usr/portage/distfiles
> contains lots of files.
> 
> A bisect in fs/cifs gives:
> $ git bisect bad
> c4d3396b261473ded6f370edd1e79ba34e089d7e is the first bad commit
> commit c4d3396b261473ded6f370edd1e79ba34e089d7e
> Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
> Date:   Tue Jul 26 12:20:18 2011 -0400
> 
>     cifs: advertise the right receive buffer size to the server
> 
>     Currently, we mirror the same size back to the server that it sends us.
>     That makes little sense. Instead we should be sending the server the
>     maximum buffer size that we can handle -- CIFSMaxBufSize minus the
>     4 byte RFC1001 header.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
> 
> :040000 040000 7a5015e0b47ca27538c4387a3b38470c86a42bae
> c802cfda7d618f1073e45ce98efe65ce03cd0e79 M      fs
> 
> $ git bisect log
> git bisect start '--' 'fs/cifs/'
> # bad: [5f66d2b58ca879e70740c82422354144845d6dd3] Merge
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
> git bisect bad 5f66d2b58ca879e70740c82422354144845d6dd3
> # good: [02f8c6aee8df3cdc935e9bdd4f2d020306035dbe] Linux 3.0
> git bisect good 02f8c6aee8df3cdc935e9bdd4f2d020306035dbe
> # good: [3ca30d40a91fb9b9871e61d5dea2c1a895906a15] CIFS: Fix oops
> while mounting with prefixpath
> git bisect good 3ca30d40a91fb9b9871e61d5dea2c1a895906a15
> # bad: [1f1cff0be05f59d5939edf28ff5ca0c6fd0a8e1c] cifs: trivial: goto
> out here is unnecessary
> git bisect bad 1f1cff0be05f59d5939edf28ff5ca0c6fd0a8e1c
> # good: [e010a5ef95b8b6a12b74b548578f7dcf93564347] [CIFS] Redundant
> null check after dereference
> git bisect good e010a5ef95b8b6a12b74b548578f7dcf93564347
> # good: [1d87c28e680ce4ecb8c260d8ce070b8339d52abb] Merge
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
> git bisect good 1d87c28e680ce4ecb8c260d8ce070b8339d52abb
> # bad: [c4d3396b261473ded6f370edd1e79ba34e089d7e] cifs: advertise the
> right receive buffer size to the server
> git bisect bad c4d3396b261473ded6f370edd1e79ba34e089d7e
> 
> A git revert of c4d3396b261473ded6f370edd1e79ba34e089d7e seems to resolve it.
> 
> If more info is needed, please let me know.

Thanks for the bug report. According to the spec, I think I was a
*little* off in the calculation but not by much. CIFSMaxBufSize doesn't
include the size of the header, so the value we're sending is too small
by 0x58 bytes. But, if anything though that should have led to the
server sending smaller frames than we can handle, which should not
cause this sort of problem.

I tried to reproduce this on my test setup, but couldn't...

Some questions...

1) did anything pop up in dmesg when this error occurred?

2) are you setting the CIFSMaxBufSize module parm to anything?

3) would it be possible to get debugging output? Instructions on how to
do that are here:

http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_troubleshooting#Enabling_Debugging

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>