Am 02.09.2013 18:53, schrieb Toralf Förster:
> On 09/01/2013 11:15 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Am 01.09.2013 18:09, schrieb Toralf Förster:
>>> On 08/30/2013 04:36 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>> Am 30.08.2013 16:10, schrieb Toralf Förster:
>>>>> On 08/29/2013 03:30 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:57:45AM +0200, richard -rw- weinberger wrote:
>>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Toralf Förster 
>>>>>>> <toralf.foers...@gmx.de> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 08/27/2013 08:06 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 05:53:14PM -0400, bfields wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 04:36:40PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> On Sun 11-08-13 11:48:49, Toralf Förster wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> so that the server either crashes (if it is a user mode linux 
>>>>>>>>>>>> image) or at least its reboot functionality got broken
>>>>>>>>>>>> - if the NFS server is hammered with scary NFS calls using a fuzzy 
>>>>>>>>>>>> tool running at a remote NFS client under a non-privileged user id.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It can re reproduced, if
>>>>>>>>>>>>    - the NFS share is an EXT3 or EXT4 directory
>>>>>>>>>>>>    - and it is created at file located at tempfs and mounted via 
>>>>>>>>>>>> loop device
>>>>>>>>>>>>    - and the NFS server is forced to umount the NFS share
>>>>>>>>>>>>    - and the server forced to restart the NSF service afterwards
>>>>>>>>>>>>    - and trinity is used
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I could find a scenario for an automated bisect. 2 times it 
>>>>>>>>>>>> brought this commit
>>>>>>>>>>>> commit 68a3396178e6688ad7367202cdf0af8ed03c8727
>>>>>>>>>>>> Author: J. Bruce Fields <bfie...@redhat.com>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Date:   Thu Mar 21 11:21:50 2013 -0400
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>     nfsd4: shut down more of delegation earlier
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks for the report.  I think I see the problem--after this commit
>>>>>>>>>> nfs4_set_delegation() failures result in nfs4_put_delegation being
>>>>>>>>>> called, but nfs4_put_delegation doesn't free the nfs4_file that has
>>>>>>>>>> already been set by alloc_init_deleg().
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Let me think about how to fix that....
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Sorry for the slow response--can you check whether this fixes the
>>>>>>>>> problem?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Yes.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> With the attached patch the problem can't be reproduced any longer with
>>>>>>>> the prepared test case and current git kernels.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> BTW: Is nobody else fuzz testing NFS?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know.  Toralf's reports are the only ones I recall off the top
>>>>>> of my head, but I may have forgotten others.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> well, 7255e71 and 3c50ba8 I'd say.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Or are these bugs just more likely to hit on UML?
>>>>>
>>>>> This definitely not. I observed at a real system EXT4 corruptions/
>>>>> issues but reported them to the EXT4 mailing list.
>>>>> It just took me a longer time to figure out a reliable configuration
>>>>> with 2 UML machiens to automatic bisect it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> That's also possible.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is not the first NFS issue found by Toralf using UML and Trinity.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yep.  The testing is definitely appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thx - in the mean while although my UML bisect scripts are working fine
>>>>> and trinity is stable enough even in UML environments to be trust worth.
>>>>
>>>> That's good to know.
>>>> Thanks you and trinity we got rid of some nasty UML bugs.
>>>
>>> yeah, but there's (among others) one of them still in the wild:
>>> If I start an UML and resize the terminal (KDE Konsole) during the boot
>>> phase then it just crashes sometimes.
>>
>> Does the attached patch fix the problem?
>>
> oh yes
> And I do have the feeling that the UML start phase till the Gentoo
> openrc line is seen is speed up too :-)

Thanks for testing!
Now I'm sure what the problem is, patch is on the way. :)

Thanks,
//richard



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