Date:   Thu, 12 Sep 2019 08:29:47 -0400
From:   "Benjamin Coddington" <bcodding@...hat.com>
To:     "Chuck Lever" <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Cc:     "Jason L Tibbitts III" <tibbs@...h.uh.edu>,
        "Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
        "Wolfgang Walter" <linux@...m.de>,
        "Linux NFS Mailing List" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        km@...all.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression in 5.1.20: Reading long directory fails

On 11 Sep 2019, at 13:54, Chuck Lever wrote:

>> On Sep 11, 2019, at 1:50 PM, Benjamin Coddington 
>> <bcodding@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 11 Sep 2019, at 13:40, Benjamin Coddington wrote:
>>
>>> On 11 Sep 2019, at 13:29, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>
>>>>> On Sep 11, 2019, at 1:26 PM, Benjamin Coddington 
>>>>> <bcodding@...hat.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11 Sep 2019, at 12:39, Chuck Lever wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sep 11, 2019, at 12:25 PM, Benjamin Coddington 
>>>>>>> <bcodding@...hat.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Instead, I think we want to make sure the mic falls squarely 
>>>>>>> into the tail
>>>>>>> every time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not clear how you could do that. The length of the page data 
>>>>>> is not
>>>>>> known to the client before it parses the reply. Are you 
>>>>>> suggesting that
>>>>>> gss_unwrap should do it somehow?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it too niave to always put the mic at the end of the tail?
>>>>
>>>> The size of the page content is variable.
>>>>
>>>> The only way the MIC will fall into the tail is if the page content 
>>>> is
>>>> exactly the largest expected size. When the page content is smaller 
>>>> than
>>>> that, the receive logic will place part or all of the MIC in 
>>>> ->pages.
>>>
>>> Ok, right.  But what I meant is that xdr_buf_read_netobj() should be 
>>> renamed
>>> and repurposed to be "move the mic from wherever it is to the end of
>>> xdr_buf's tail".
>>>
>>> But now I see what you mean, and I also see that it is already 
>>> trying to do
>>> that.. and we don't want to overlap the copy..
>>>
>>> So, really, we need the tail to be larger than twice the mic.. less 
>>> 1.  That
>>> means the fix is probably just increasing rslack for krb5i.
>>
>> .. or we can keep the tighter tail space, and if we detect the mic 
>> straddles
>> the page and tail, we can move the mic into the tail with 2 copies, 
>> first
>> move the bit in the tail back, then move the bit in the pages.
>>
>> Which is preferred, less allocation, or in the rare case this occurs, 
>> doing
>> copy twice?
>
> It sounds like the bug is that the current code does not deal 
> correctly
> when the MIC crosses the boundary between ->pages and ->tail? I'd like
> to see that addressed rather than changing rslack.

Here's what I'm about to run through my testing:

diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xdr.c b/net/sunrpc/xdr.c
index 48c93b9e525e..d6ffc9011269 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/xdr.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/xdr.c
@@ -1238,14 +1238,21 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xdr_encode_word);

  /* If the netobj starting offset bytes from the start of xdr_buf is 
contained
   * entirely in the head or the tail, set object to point to it; 
otherwise
- * try to find space for it at the end of the tail, copy it there, and
- * set obj to point to it. */
+ * try to find space for it at the end of the tail, and copy it there.  
If
+ * the netobj is partly within the page data and tail, shrink the pages 
to
+ * move the object into the tail */
  int xdr_buf_read_netobj(struct xdr_buf *buf, struct xdr_netobj *obj, 
unsigned int offset)
  {
         struct xdr_buf subbuf;
+       unsigned int page_range;

         if (xdr_decode_word(buf, offset, &obj->len))
                 return -EFAULT;
+
+       page_range = buf->head->iov_len + buf->page_len - offset + 4;
+       if (page_range > 0 && page_range < obj->len)
+               xdr_shrink_pagelen(buf, page_range);
+
         if (xdr_buf_subsegment(buf, &subbuf, offset + 4, obj->len))
                 return -EFAULT;


Is the use of xdr_shrink_pagelen() at this point in the decoding a 
problem for RDMA?

Ben

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