linux-kernel - Re: Issue with Race Condition on NFS4 with KRB

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:57:34 -0400
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	Joshua Scoggins <theoretically.x64@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Issue with Race Condition on NFS4 with KRB

On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 11:37 -0700, Joshua Scoggins wrote: 
> Here are our mount options from auto.master
> 
> /user -fstype=nfs4,sec=krb5p,noresvport,noatime
> /group -fstype=nfs4,sec=krb5p,noresvport,noatime
> 
> As for the server, we don't control it. It's actually run by the
> campus wide it department we are just lab support for CS. I can
> potentially get the server information but I need to know what you want
> specifically as they're pretty paranoid about giving out information about
> their servers.

I would just want to know _what_ server platform you are running
against. I know of at least one server bug that might explain what you
are seeing, and I'd like to eliminate that as a possibility.

Trond 

> Joshua Scoggins
> 
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Trond Myklebust
> <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 11:21 -0700, Joshua Scoggins wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> We are trying to update our linux images in our CS lab and have it a
> >> bit of an issue. We are
> >> using nfs to load user home folder. While testing the new image we
> >> found that the nfs4 module will
> >>  crash when using firefox 3.6.17 for an extended period of time. Some
> >> research via google yielded that
> >> it's a potential race condition specific to nfs with krb auth with
> >> newer kernels. Our old image doesn't have
> >> this issue and it seems that its due to it running a far older kernel version.
> >>
> >> We have two images and both are having this problem. One is running
> >> 2.6.39 and the other is 2.6.38.
> >> Here is what dmesg spit out from the machine running 2.6.39 on one occasion:
> >>
> >> [  678.632061] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >> [  678.632068] WARNING: at net/sunrpc/clnt.c:1567 call_decode+0xb2/0x69c()
> >> [  678.632070] Hardware name: OptiPlex 755
> >> [  678.632072] Modules linked in: nvidia(P) scsi_wait_scan
> >> [  678.632078] Pid: 3882, comm: kworker/0:2 Tainted: P
> >> 2.6.39-gentoo-r1 #1
> >> [  678.632080] Call Trace:
> >> [  678.632086]  [<ffffffff81035b20>] warn_slowpath_common+0x80/0x98
> >> [  678.632091]  [<ffffffff8117231e>] ? nfs4_xdr_dec_readdir+0xba/0xba
> >> [  678.632094]  [<ffffffff81035b4d>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x17
> >> [  678.632097]  [<ffffffff81426f48>] call_decode+0xb2/0x69c
> >> [  678.632101]  [<ffffffff8142d2b5>] __rpc_execute+0x78/0x24b
> >> [  678.632104]  [<ffffffff8142d4c9>] ? rpc_execute+0x41/0x41
> >> [  678.632107]  [<ffffffff8142d4d9>] rpc_async_schedule+0x10/0x12
> >> [  678.632111]  [<ffffffff8104a49d>] process_one_work+0x1d9/0x2e7
> >> [  678.632114]  [<ffffffff8104c402>] worker_thread+0x133/0x24f
> >> [  678.632118]  [<ffffffff8104c2cf>] ? manage_workers+0x18d/0x18d
> >> [  678.632121]  [<ffffffff8104f6a0>] kthread+0x7d/0x85
> >> [  678.632125]  [<ffffffff8145e314>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
> >> [  678.632128]  [<ffffffff8104f623>] ? kthread_worker_fn+0x13a/0x13a
> >> [  678.632131]  [<ffffffff8145e310>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
> >> [  678.632133] ---[ end trace 6bfae002a63e020e ]---
> >>
> >> Is there some sort of work around?
> >
> > Cced the linux-nfs mailing list.
> >
> > The above warning is not specific to krb5, but indicates a likely race
> > between replies after a resend of the RPC call.
> >
> > Can you please tell us what your mount options are, and also tell us a
> > bit more about what kind of server you are running against?
> >
> > Trond
> > --
> > Trond Myklebust
> > Linux NFS client maintainer
> >
> > NetApp
> > Trond.Myklebust@...app.com
> > www.netapp.com
> >
> >

-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@...app.com
www.netapp.com

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