Re: [GIT PULL] nfsd changes for 5.18

[Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 2022-07-10 at 16:42 +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
> 
> > On Jul 10, 2022, at 6:43 AM, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:12:31 +0000
> > Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > couldn't find offender patch on ML so replying here
> 
> Probably:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/AEC24099-5BC9-49C8-B759-920824F23F3C@oracle.com/
> 
> 
> > > Hi Linus-
> > > 
> > > The following changes since commit 7e57714cd0ad2d5bb90e50b5096a0e671dec1ef3:
> > > 
> > > Linux 5.17-rc6 (2022-02-27 14:36:33 -0800)
> > > 
> > > are available in the Git repository at:
> > > 
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux.git tags/nfsd-5.18
> > > 
> > > for you to fetch changes up to 4fc5f5346592cdc91689455d83885b0af65d71b8:
> > > 
> > > nfsd: fix using the correct variable for sizeof() (2022-03-20 12:49:38 -0400)
> > > 
> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------
> > > New features:
> > > - NFSv3 support in NFSD is now always built
> > > - Added NFSD support for the NFSv4 birth-time file attribute
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Ondrej Valousek (1):
> > > nfsd: Add support for the birth time attribute
> 
> Thank you for the report, Igor.
> 
> 
> > This patch regressed clients that support TIME_CREATE attribute.
> > Starting with this patch client might think that server supports
> > TIME_CREATE and start sending this attribute in its requests.
> 
> Indeed, e377a3e698fb ("nfsd: Add support for the birth time
> attribute") does not include a change to nfsd4_decode_fattr4()
> that decodes the birth time attribute.
> 
> I don't immediately see another storage protocol stack in our
> kernel that supports a client setting the birth time, so NFSD
> might have to ignore the client-provided value.
> 

Cephfs allows this. My thinking at the time that I implemented it was
that it should be settable for backup purposes, but this was possibly a
mistake. On most filesystems, the btime seems to be equivalent to inode
creation time and is read-only.

> 
> > However kernel on server side (since this patch and to
> > current master) upon getting such request will return EINVAL.
> > (my guess is that TIME_CREATE not being decoded properly and
> > that messes up request parsing).
> 
> I'll send a quick-and-dirty fix your way as we explore the
> question of whether NFSD needs to ignore the birth time value
> in this case.
> 
> 
> > End result is unusable mount (unless it's treated as readonly).
> 
> That seems odd, and not clear whether that's a client or server
> problem. I hope that will clear up once the server deals with
> the time_create attribute appropriately.
> 
> 
> > Reproduces with current master (HEAD at e5524c2a1fc40) and MacOS
> > client (Big Sur or newest Monterey).
> > 
> > server is typical setup exporting files from XFS (Fedora36)
> > 
> > #  rpcdebug -m nfsd -s all
> > 
> > on client:
> > 
> > % mount -t nfs -o vers=4,rw,nfc,sec=sys testnas:/mnt  ~/test
> > % touch ~/test/fff
> >     touch: test/fff: Invalid argument
> > 
> > server logs:
> > 
> > nfsd: fh_compose(exp fd:00/128 fff, ino=0)
> > NFSD: nfsd4_open filename  op_openowner 0000000000000000
> > 
> > Here is a request the touch generates:
> >        Network File System, Ops(6): PUTFH, SAVEFH, OPEN, GETATTR, RESTOREFH, GETATTR
> >            [Program Version: 4]
> >            [V4 Procedure: COMPOUND (1)]
> >            Tag: create
> >            minorversion: 0
> >            Operations (count: 6): PUTFH, SAVEFH, OPEN, GETATTR, RESTOREFH, GETATTR
> >                Opcode: PUTFH (22)
> >                Opcode: SAVEFH (32)
> >                Opcode: OPEN (18)
> >                    seqid: 0x00000004
> >                    share_access: OPEN4_SHARE_ACCESS_BOTH (3)
> >                    share_deny: OPEN4_SHARE_DENY_NONE (0)
> >                    clientid: 0xba93c9620aec46ea
> >                    owner: <DATA>
> >                    Open Type: OPEN4_CREATE (1)
> >                        Create Mode: UNCHECKED4 (0)
> >                        Attr mask: 0x00040002 (Mode, Time_Create)
> >                            reco_attr: Mode (33)
> >                            reco_attr: Time_Create (50)
> >                    Claim Type: CLAIM_NULL (0)
> >                        Name: fff
> > 
> >        [...]
> > 
> > when trying to copy file via GUI (Finder) it goes a different route
> > but ends up with error anyway and with leftover 0-length file on server
> > with messed up permissions, i.e.
> 
> The current NFSv4 OPEN(CREATE) code path is still not right. Fixing
> the TIME_CREATE problem should make this symptom go away for now,
> but eventually that path will need to be restructured so that it
> cannot leave a turd if the whole create process was not able to
> complete.
> 
> 
> > open/create without Time_Create succeeds but followup
> > setattr with Time_Create fails EINVAL.
> > 
> >        Network File System, Ops(3): PUTFH, SETATTR, GETATTR
> >            [Program Version: 4]
> >            [V4 Procedure: COMPOUND (1)]
> >            Tag: setattr
> >            minorversion: 0
> >            Operations (count: 3): PUTFH, SETATTR, GETATTR
> >                Opcode: PUTFH (22)
> >                Opcode: SETATTR (34)
> >                    StateID
> >                    Attr mask: 0x00450002 (Mode, Time_Access_Set, Time_Create, Time_Modify_Set)
> >                        reco_attr: Mode (33)
> >                        reco_attr: Time_Access_Set (48)
> >                        reco_attr: Time_Create (50)
> >                        reco_attr: Time_Modify_Set (54)
> >                Opcode: GETATTR (9)
> >            [Main Opcode: SETATTR (34)]
> > 
> > [...]
> > > --
> > > Chuck Lever
> 
> --
> Chuck Lever
> 
> 
> 

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Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>