Bug 458622 - improper behavior of rpc.mountd on NFS server leads to BUG on NFS client
Summary: improper behavior of rpc.mountd on NFS server leads to BUG on NFS client
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nfs-utils
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Steve Dickson
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-08-11 06:40 UTC by Vasily Averin
Modified: 2009-01-09 07:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-01-09 07:52:11 UTC
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Description Vasily Averin 2008-08-11 06:40:52 UTC
Description of problem:
Specific NFS server setup results on BUG on linux nfs client:
nfs_follow_mountpoint
  BUG_ON(IS_ROOT(dentry))

the configuration is the following:
tc27.qa.sw.ru -- NFS server (FC8)
ts27.qa.sw.ru -- NFS client (RHEL5)

Server configuration is the following:
[root@tc27 proc]# cat /etc/exports 
/nfs_share ts27.qa.sw.ru(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,crossmnt)
/nfs_share/boo *(rw,no_root_squash,no_subtree_check)
[root@tc27 proc]# cat /proc/mounts 
/dev/mapper/vzvg-vz /nfs_share ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0
/dev/sda1 /nfs_share/boo ext3 rw,data=ordered 0 0

Issue can be reproduced by the following script on CLIENT SIDE:

[root@ts27 ~]# cat sub-mounts.sh 
#!/bin/bash

echo 65535 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/nfs_debug
echo 65535 > /proc/sys/sunrpc/rpc_debug

stat -f /mnt/nfs/ | grep -q 'Type: nfs' ||
mount -v -t nfs tc27:/nfs_share /mnt/nfs -o vers=3,tcp,hard,nointr
{
ls /mnt/nfs
ls /mnt/nfs/boo
} >/dev/null

echo ===========================
grep nfs /proc/mounts
umount /mnt/nfs/

This BUG_ON  happens due to improper behavior of rpc.mountd process on the nfs server. This is proven by the following file on the server:

[root@tc27 proc]# cat /proc/net/rpc/nfsd.fh/content
#domain fsidtype fsid [path]
*,ts27 0 0x0000fd0000000002 /nfs_share
*,ts27 0 0x0100080000000002 /nfs_share

As you can see it contains /nfs_share instead of /nfs_share/boo for 0x0100080000000002 fsid.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nfs-utils-1.1.0-6.fc8

Actual results:
BUG_ON on client side on nfs submount lookup because of incorrect content of 
/proc/net/rpc/nfsd.fh/content file

Expected results:
correct content of /proc/net/rpc/nfsd.fh/content file

Comment 1 Steve Dickson 2008-08-11 13:46:07 UTC
The patch posted to the linux-nfs mailing list:

Unfortunately, BUG_ON(IS_ROOT(dentry)) can happen inside
nfs_follow_mountpoint with NFS running Fedora 8 using a
specific setup.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458622

So, the situation should be handled on NFS client gracefully.

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <den>
CC: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust>
CC: J. Bruce Fields <bfields>
---
 fs/nfs/namespace.c |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/namespace.c b/fs/nfs/namespace.c
index 66df08d..4f11c13 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/namespace.c
@@ -105,7 +105,10 @@ static void * nfs_follow_mountpoint(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
 
 	dprintk("--> nfs_follow_mountpoint()\n");
 
-	BUG_ON(IS_ROOT(dentry));
+	err = -ESTALE;
+	if (IS_ROOT(dentry))
+		goto out_err;
+
 	dprintk("%s: enter\n", __func__);
 	dput(nd->path.dentry);
 	nd->path.dentry = dget(dentry);

Comment 2 Vasily Averin 2008-08-12 08:10:28 UTC
I've created a separate bug for RHEL5 NFS client panic
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458774

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Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2009-01-09 07:52:11 UTC
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is 
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