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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: Olga kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Suggested-by: Olga kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Fixes: c10a75145f ("NFSv4.2: add the extended attribute proc functions.")
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Olga kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>
Tested-by: Olga kornievskaia <kolga@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
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