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Commit 1c87b851 authored by Chuck Lever's avatar Chuck Lever Committed by Anna Schumaker
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NFS: Fix rpcrdma_inline_fixup() crash with new LISTXATTRS operation



By switching to an XFS-backed export, I am able to reproduce the
ibcomp worker crash on my client with xfstests generic/013.

For the failing LISTXATTRS operation, xdr_inline_pages() is called
with page_len=12 and buflen=128.

- When ->send_request() is called, rpcrdma_marshal_req() does not
  set up a Reply chunk because buflen is smaller than the inline
  threshold. Thus rpcrdma_convert_iovs() does not get invoked at
  all and the transport's XDRBUF_SPARSE_PAGES logic is not invoked
  on the receive buffer.

- During reply processing, rpcrdma_inline_fixup() tries to copy
  received data into rq_rcv_buf->pages because page_len is positive.
  But there are no receive pages because rpcrdma_marshal_req() never
  allocated them.

The result is that the ibcomp worker faults and dies. Sometimes that
causes a visible crash, and sometimes it results in a transport hang
without other symptoms.

RPC/RDMA's XDRBUF_SPARSE_PAGES support is not entirely correct, and
should eventually be fixed or replaced. However, my preference is
that upper-layer operations should explicitly allocate their receive
buffers (using GFP_KERNEL) when possible, rather than relying on
XDRBUF_SPARSE_PAGES.

Reported-by: default avatarOlga kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Suggested-by: default avatarOlga kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Fixes: c10a7514

 ("NFSv4.2: add the extended attribute proc functions.")
Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarOlga kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFrank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>
Tested-by: default avatarOlga kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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