netdev - NFS mount attempts hangs with btrfs on server side

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 1 Mar 2010 01:41:07 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: NFS mount attempts hangs with btrfs on server side

Greetings.

I am observing a case whereby NFS mounting seems to hang. A tcpdump 
trace reveals that it retries forever RPC and exchanging NFS messages 
without giving any warning or error message about what's wrong. There is 
no firewall active, and the NFSserver (.1) has the client (.101) 
unconditionally allowed.

It's a simple
mount -t nfs 192.168.100.1:/B/home/jengelh /home/jengelh -o tcp,intr,soft

/B is a btrfs volume. Mounting an ext4 volume over NFS instead completes 
in a splitsecond.

Attached is the pcap file (->wireshark pretty display for deciphering).

It seems pretty much independent of the Linux kernel used; I can 
reproduce this in both 2.6.33-rc8 as well as 2.6.31.12.
Download attachment "nfsF.pcap.bz2" of type "APPLICATION/X-BZIP" (6644 bytes)