Re: NFS Caching broken in 4.19.37

[Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>]

On 20/02/2021 20:04, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 07:19:54PM +0100, Anton Ivanov wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> NFS caching appears broken in 4.19.37.
>>
>> The more cores/threads the easier to reproduce. Tested with identical
>> results on Ryzen 1600 and 1600X.
>>
>> 1. Mount an openwrt build tree over NFS v4
>> 2. Run make -j `cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep vendor | wc -l` ; make clean in a
>> loop
>> 3. Result after 3-4 iterations:
>>
>> State on the client
>>
>> ls -laF /var/autofs/local/src/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/linux-4.14.125/arch/mips/include/generated/uapi/asm
>>
>> total 8
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 anivanov anivanov 4096 Jul  8 11:40 ./
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 anivanov anivanov 4096 Jul  8 11:40 ../
>>
>> State as seen on the server (mounted via nfs from localhost):
>>
>> ls -laF /var/autofs/local/src/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/linux-4.14.125/arch/mips/include/generated/uapi/asm
>> total 12
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 anivanov anivanov 4096 Jul  8 11:40 ./
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 anivanov anivanov 4096 Jul  8 11:40 ../
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 anivanov anivanov   32 Jul  8 11:40 ipcbuf.h
>>
>> Actual state on the filesystem:
>>
>> ls -laF /exports/work/src/openwrt/build_dir/target-mips_24kc_musl/linux-ar71xx_tiny/linux-4.14.125/arch/mips/include/generated/uapi/asm
>> total 12
>> drwxr-xr-x 2 anivanov anivanov 4096 Jul  8 11:40 ./
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 anivanov anivanov 4096 Jul  8 11:40 ../
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 anivanov anivanov   32 Jul  8 11:40 ipcbuf.h
>>
>> So the client has quite clearly lost the plot. Telling it to drop caches and
>> re-reading the directory shows the file present.
>>
>> It is possible to reproduce this using a linux kernel tree too, just takes
>> much more iterations - 10+ at least.
>>
>> Both client and server run 4.19.37 from Debian buster. This is filed as
>> debian bug 931500. I originally thought it to be autofs related, but IMHO it
>> is actually something fundamentally broken in nfs caching resulting in cache
>> corruption.
> According to the reporter downstream in Debian, at
> https://bugs.debian.org/940821#26 thi seem still reproducible with
> more recent kernels than the initial reported. Is there anything Anton
> can provide to try to track down the issue?
>
> Anton, can you reproduce with current stable series?

100% reproducible with any kernel from 4.9 to 5.4, stable or backports. 
It may exist in earlier versions, but I do not have a machine with 
anything before 4.9 to test at present.

 From 1-2 make clean && make  cycles to one afternoon depending on the 
number of machine cores. More cores/threads the faster it does it.

I tried playing with protocol minor versions, caching options, etc - it 
is still reproducible for any nfs4 settings as long as there is client 
side caching of metadata.

A.

>
> Regards,
> Salvatore
>

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