linux-kernel - Re: Odd log message associated with NFS

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Date:	Wed, 28 Mar 2007 19:23:48 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Thorsten Kranzkowski <dl8bcu@...bcu.de>,
	Phy Prabab <phyprabab@...il.com>, nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Odd log message associated with NFS

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:05:36PM +0000, Thorsten Kranzkowski wrote:
> I'll let a tcpdump run this evening and see if I can correlate the message
> with anything. 
> 
> If you have a printk or other patch for me to try, just let me know.

Well, just for fun, you could try something like this--should dump some
data the first time it hits the "bad direction" error.

--b.

diff --git a/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h b/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h
index 9e340fa..c2349d2 100644
--- a/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h
+++ b/include/linux/sunrpc/xdr.h
@@ -35,6 +35,45 @@ struct xdr_netobj {
  */
 typedef int	(*kxdrproc_t)(void *rqstp, __be32 *data, void *obj);
 
+/* dump the buffer in `emacs-hexl' style */
+#define isprintable(c)      ((c > 0x1f) && (c < 0x7f))
+
+static inline void dump_hex(void *p, u_int length)
+{
+	u_int i, j, jm;
+	u8 c, *cp;
+
+	printk("RPC: print_hexl: length %d\n",length);
+	cp = p;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < length; i += 0x10) {
+		printk("  %04x: ", (u_int)i);
+		jm = length - i;
+		jm = jm > 16 ? 16 : jm;
+
+		for (j = 0; j < jm; j++) {
+			if ((j % 2) == 1)
+				printk("%02x ", (u_int)cp[i+j]);
+			else
+				printk("%02x", (u_int)cp[i+j]);
+		}
+		for (; j < 16; j++) {
+			if ((j % 2) == 1)
+				printk("   ");
+			else
+				printk("  ");
+		}
+		printk(" ");
+
+		for (j = 0; j < jm; j++) {
+			c = cp[i+j];
+			c = isprintable(c) ? c : '.';
+			printk("%c", c);
+		}
+		printk("\n");
+	}
+}
+
 /*
  * Basic structure for transmission/reception of a client XDR message.
  * Features a header (for a linear buffer containing RPC headers
@@ -61,6 +100,18 @@ struct xdr_buf {
 
 };
 
+static inline void dump_xdr_buf(struct xdr_buf *buf)
+{
+	printk("buf->head[0].iov_base = %p, buf->head[0].iov_len = %d\n",
+			buf->head[0].iov_base, buf->head[0].iov_len);
+	printk("buf->tail[0].iov_base = %p, buf->tail[0].iov_len = %d\n",
+			buf->tail[0].iov_base, buf->tail[0].iov_len);
+	printk("pages = %p, page_base = %d, page_len = %d\n",
+			buf->pages, buf->page_base, buf->page_len);
+	printk("buflen = %d, len = %d\n", buf->buflen, buf->len);
+	return;
+}
+
 /*
  * pre-xdr'ed macros.
  */
diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svc.c b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
index b4db53f..977056e 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/svc.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/svc.c
@@ -776,6 +776,26 @@ svc_register(struct svc_serv *serv, int proto, unsigned short port)
 	return error;
 }
 
+static void
+dump_once(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *orig_start)
+{
+	static int done = 0;
+	struct kvec *argv = &rqstp->rq_arg.head[0];
+	char buf[RPC_MAX_ADDRBUFLEN];
+
+	if (done)
+		return;
+	done++;
+
+	printk("dumping request; rq_addr = %s, rq_deferred = %p, rq_arg:\n",
+		svc_print_addr(rqstp, buf, sizeof(buf)), rqstp->rq_deferred);
+	dump_xdr_buf(&rqstp->rq_arg);
+
+	printk("head data (from %p):\n", orig_start);
+	dump_hex(orig_start, (argv->iov_base + argv->iov_len)
+						- (void *)orig_start);
+}
+
 /*
  * Process the RPC request.
  */
@@ -794,6 +814,7 @@ svc_process(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	__be32			auth_stat, rpc_stat;
 	int			auth_res;
 	__be32			*reply_statp;
+	__be32			*start;
 
 	rpc_stat = rpc_success;
 
@@ -819,6 +840,7 @@ svc_process(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	if (rqstp->rq_prot == IPPROTO_TCP)
 		svc_putnl(resv, 0);
 
+	start = argv->iov_base;
 	rqstp->rq_xid = svc_getu32(argv);
 	svc_putu32(resv, rqstp->rq_xid);
 
@@ -971,6 +993,7 @@ err_short_len:
 err_bad_dir:
 	if (net_ratelimit())
 		printk("svc: bad direction %d, dropping request\n", dir);
+	dump_once(rqstp, start);
 
 	serv->sv_stats->rpcbadfmt++;
 	goto dropit;			/* drop request */
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