Message-Id: <C18DF7CB-3641-4A23-8BEB-63A161503DDD@oracle.com>
Date:	Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:47:59 -0500
From:	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
To:	Gianluca Alberici <gianluca@...networks.biz>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, NFS list <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: NFS EINVAL on open(... | O_TRUNC) on 2.6.23.9

Hi Gianluca-

On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Gianluca Alberici wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Thanks to Chuck's help i finally decided to proceed to a git bisect  
> and found the bad patch. Is there anybody that has an idea why it  
> breaks userspace nfs servers as we have seen ? Sorry for emailing  
> directly Chuck Lever and Andrew Morton but i really wanted to thank  
> Chuck for his precious help and thought that /akpm/ having signed  
> this commit maybe he's going to figure out whats wrong easily

The commit you found is a plausible source of the trouble (based on  
our current theory about the problem).

What isn't quite clear to me is whether this commit causes your user- 
space server to start failing suddenly, or it causes the client to  
start sending the special non-standard time stamps in the SETATTR  
request.  My guess is the latter, but I want to confirm this guess  
against reality  :-)

Are you running the client and server concurrently on the same  
system?  If so, it would be helpful if you could run this test with a  
constant kernel version on one side while varying it on the other.   
If client and server are already on different systems, can you tell  
us which system and which kernel combinations caused the failure?

A matrix of combinations might be:

1. server kernel is before 1c710c89, client kernel is before 1c710c89
2. server kernel is before 1c710c89, client kernel is after 1c710c89
3. server kernel is after 1c710c89, client kernel is before 1c710c89
4. server kernel is after 1c710c89, client kernel is after 1c710c89

Thanks.

> This is what i finally get from git:
>
> 1c710c896eb461895d3c399e15bb5f20b39c9073 is first bad commit
> commit 1c710c896eb461895d3c399e15bb5f20b39c9073
> Author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
> Date:   Tue May 8 00:33:25 2007 -0700
>
>    utimensat implementation
>
>    Implement utimensat(2) which is an extension to futimesat(2) in  
> that it
>
>    a) supports nano-second resolution for the timestamps
>    b) allows to selectively ignore the atime/mtime value
>    c) allows to selectively use the current time for either atime  
> or mtime
>    d) supports changing the atime/mtime of a symlink itself along  
> the lines
>       of the BSD lutimes(3) functions
>
> [...]
>
>    [akpm@...ux-foundation.org: add missing i386 syscall table entry]
>    Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>
>    Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...nvz.org>
>    Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@....net>
>    Cc: <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
>    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
>    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
>
> :040000 040000 3bedbc7fd919ba167b8e5f208a630261570853bb  
> 927002a9423dcb51ba4f7bee53e60cdca6c1df43 M      arch
> :040000 040000 fd688c5b534efd3111cbf1e1095d6ff631738325  
> 3d0fbf20fb3da1cb380c92f5b2b39815897376d3 M      fs
> :040000 040000 bfb1a907a9a842db4fa3543e12a8381d4e11b1eb  
> 9c1d99324db12e066c0d17870fe48457809ad43b M      include
>
> Thanks in advance, regards,
>
> Gianluca
>
>> Hi Gianluca-
>>
>> On Jan 30, 2008, at 7:40 AM, Gianluca Alberici wrote:
>>
>>> Hello again everybody
>>>
>>> Here follows the testbench:
>>>
>>> - I got two mirrors, same machine, same disk etc...chaged  
>>> hostname, IP, and on the second i have recompiled kernel.
>>> - First: 2.6.21.7 on debian sarge
>>> - Second: 2.6.22 same system.
>>> - Onto both i got nfs-user-server and cfsd last versions
>>> - The export file is the same (localhost /opt/nfs (rw, async),  
>>> stripping off the async option does not changes anything)
>>> - Mount options are exactly the same.
>>>
>>> The problem arises in the very same manner with both nfs and cfsd:
>>>
>>> NFS:setattr {
>>> ...
>>> ...
>>> RPC:call_decode {
>>> return 22;
>>> }
>>> ...
>>> return 22;
>>> }
>>
>>
>> Again, there is nothing wrong with the RPC client or call_decode.  
>> The *server* is returning NFSERR_INVAL (22) to a SETATTR request;  
>> the RPC client is simply passing that along to the NFS client, as  
>> it is designed to do.
>>
>>> I have tried these kernels:
>>>
>>> 2.6.16.11 works
>>> 2.6.20 works
>>> 2.6.21 works
>>> 2.6.21.7 works
>>> 2.6.22 doesnt work (contiguous to previous version)
>>> 2.6.23 doesnt work (same behavior as previous)
>>> 2.6.23.9 doesnt work (as above)
>>> 2.6.24rc7 doesnt work (as above)
>>>
>>> I would really like to do more, client or server side, if you ave  
>>> any suggestions.
>>> Can we find out what is the change (doesnt matter if it is a buf  
>>> or bug fix) that caused this problem ?
>>
>>
>> The goal here is to identify the kernel change between 2.6.21 and  
>> 2.6.22 that makes the client generate SETATTR requests the user- 
>> space server chokes on. It may be a change in the NFS client, or  
>> it could be somewhere else in the file system stack, like the VFS.
>>
>> The usual procedure is to use "git bisect". It does a binary  
>> search on the kernel patches between the working kernel version  
>> and the kernel version that is known not to work. It works like this:
>>
>> 1. You clone a linux kernel git repository (if you don't have a git
>> repository already)
>>
>> 2. You tell git bisect which kernel version is working, and which  
>> isn't.
>> git bisect then selects a commit about half way in between the  
>> working
>> and non-working versions, and checks out that version of the kernel
>>
>> 3. You build that kernel, and run your test case
>>
>> 4. You tell git bisect whether the resulting kernel passes your  
>> test case,
>> it selects a new commit, and checks out that version of the kernel.
>>
>> 5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until git bisect has identified the commit  
>> that
>> causes the kernel to stop passing your test case
>>
>> If the number of patches between 2.6.21 and 2.6.22 is N, then git  
>> bisect will find the faulty patch in O(log2(N)) steps. For  
>> example, if there are 250 patches between 2.6.21 and 2.6.22, it  
>> will take about 8 iterations of steps 3 and 4 to find the faulty  
>> patch, if all goes well; far fewer than the total number of  
>> patches you would need to test one at a time.
>>
>> Naturally you can also do this by applying and reverting patches  
>> with "patch -p1", but it's a little more work.
>>
>>> Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Jan 29, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 20:50 +0100, Gianluca Alberici wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I confirm that i have encountered this same problem (EINVAL on  
>>>>>> open
>>>>>> (...O | TRUNC) with the following userspace servers:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - nfs-user-server shipped with debian sarge/etch etc...
>>>>>> - cfsd (crypto file system which is an nfs server)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I want to underline again that these userspace servers have  
>>>>>> been woking
>>>>>> perfectly until 2.6.21.7 (which is the last 2.6.21)
>>>>>> Since 2.6.22 the problem came out and it is still present into  
>>>>>> 2.6.24
>>>>>> rc7 (last i tested). Conclusion: there must have been  
>>>>>> something that is
>>>>>> changed in 2.6.22 that caused the problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The only difference between these two dumps are the fact that  
>>>>> the first
>>>>> one isn't using the Sun convention for telling NFSv2 servers to  
>>>>> set to
>>>>> the current time (see the code in xdr_encode_current_server_time).
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I thought I saw that on both SETATTRs, but I could be wrong.
>>>>
>>>>> I don't see why this would be new behaviour after 2.6.21. The  
>>>>> code for
>>>>> this has been in the NFS client since 2.6.15 at least...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> A mount option is set on one test client, and not the other,  
>>>> perhaps?
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Chuck Lever
>>>> chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com
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