Created attachment 733286 [details]
Good FSINFO RPC from Linux

Created attachment 733287 [details]
Text summary of failed FSINFO RPC

Created attachment 733288 [details]
Text summary of successful FSINFO RPC

Niels de Vos <ndevos> points out in http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gluster-devel/2013-04/msg00050.html:

«
XDR (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4506, the encoding used for the RPC 
protocol) uses 'blocks' for alignment. A fhandle byte array that is 
34-bytes long, needs to be (34 / 4 + 1)*4 = 36 bytes in size. The 'length' 
given in the structure tells the consumer to ignore the two tailing 
bytes.

The NFSv3 specification (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1813#page-21) 
defines the nfs_fh3 as a opaque (not bytes) structure.

My guess is that this (untested) change would fix it, can you try that?
»

It didn't :) Looks like Niels may have identified the problem, still need to fix it however.

New proposal sent to Michael with gluster-devel@ on CC:

xdr_nfs_fh3 (XDR *xdrs, nfs_fh3 *objp)
{
        uint32_t size;

        if (!xdr_int (xdrs, &size))
                if (!xdr_opaque (xdrs, (u_int *)&objp->data.data_val, size))
                        return FALSE
        return TRUE;
}

Created attachment 735043 [details]
Proposed patch for testing

23:51 < ndevos> Supermathie: ah, I've thought of the error in my
   suggestion - that function is used to encode and decode
23:52 < ndevos> which means, that the size parameter must be set
   correctly - the .data_len attribute contain the size when encoding,
   and should be overwritten when decoding
23:53 < ndevos> KERBOOM happens when an idea is only half looked at :-/

Maybe something the attached patch works better? It should encode/decode
both the length and the fhandle value. Compile tested only.

Created attachment 735301 [details]
Updated patch

This patch does not break the Linux NFS client. I wonder if this makes it
possible to use the Oracle DNF client.

What happens when gluster accepts the bad RPC in the FSINFO handler is that things continue on, but that same bad XDR blocking keeps coming in and causes the glusterfs NFS daemon to crash.

Test cases need to be added to gluster to be more robust in handling this situation.

Regarding Oracle, I'm able to work around the problem by expanding the size of the FD so that it happens to be congruent to 0mod4 bytes: https://github.com/Supermathie/glusterfs/commit/95880cf71375cb4b04a1b645598c7570c5087de7

I'm morally opposed to submitting this for inclusion in Gluster however - Oracle needs to fix their code!

I'm inclined to leave this bug open as a request for better robustness in the handling of bad XDR encoding in incoming RPCs - they shouldn't be crashing Gluster's NFS.

REVIEW: http://review.gluster.org/4918 (Expand gluster's NFS FD header to 4 bytes) posted (#2) for review on master by Anand Avati (avati)

COMMIT: http://review.gluster.org/4918 committed in master by Anand Avati (avati) 
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commit 39a1eaf38d64f66dfa74c6843dc9266f40dd4645
Author: Michael Brown <michael>
Date:   Tue Apr 30 11:34:57 2013 -0400

    Expand gluster's NFS FD header to 4 bytes
    
    * https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=950121
    * Oracle's DNFS does not properly XDR encoding on NFS FDs that
      are not congruent to 0mod4 bytes long
    * This patch is a workaround to support Oracle's buggy code
    
    Change-Id: Ic621e2cd679a86aa9a06ed9ca684925e1e0ec43f
    BUG: 950121
    Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <michael>
    Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.org/4918
    Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins.com>
    Reviewed-by: Anand Avati <avati>

This bug is getting closed because a release has been made available that should address the reported issue. In case the problem is still not fixed with glusterfs-3.5.0, please reopen this bug report.

glusterfs-3.5.0 has been announced on the Gluster Developers mailinglist [1], packages for several distributions should become available in the near future. Keep an eye on the Gluster Users mailinglist [2] and the update infrastructure for your distribution.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.devel/6137
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.gluster.user