On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 08:35:36AM -0700, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> 
> On Jan 21, 2014, at 3:08, shaobingqing <shaobingq...@bwstor.com.cn> wrote:
> 
> > 2014/1/21 Trond Myklebust <trond.mykleb...@primarydata.com>:
> >> On Mon, 2014-01-20 at 14:59 +0800, shaobingqing wrote:
> >>> In current code, there only one struct rpc_rqst is prealloced. If one
> >>> callback request is received from two sk_buff, the xprt_alloc_bc_request
> >>> would be execute two times with the same transport->xid. The first time
> >>> xprt_alloc_bc_request will alloc one struct rpc_rqst and the 
> >>> TCP_RCV_COPY_DATA
> >>> bit of transport->tcp_flags will not be cleared. The second time
> >>> xprt_alloc_bc_request could not alloc struct rpc_rqst any more and NULL
> >>> pointer will be returned, then xprt_force_disconnect occur. I think one
> >>> callback request can be allowed to be received from two sk_buff.
> >>> 
> >>> Signed-off-by: shaobingqing <shaobingq...@bwstor.com.cn>
> >>> ---
> >>> net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c |   11 +++++++++--
> >>> 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>> 
> >>> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
> >>> index ee03d35..606950d 100644
> >>> --- a/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
> >>> +++ b/net/sunrpc/xprtsock.c
> >>> @@ -1271,8 +1271,13 @@ static inline int xs_tcp_read_callback(struct 
> >>> rpc_xprt *xprt,
> >>>      struct sock_xprt *transport =
> >>>                              container_of(xprt, struct sock_xprt, xprt);
> >>>      struct rpc_rqst *req;
> >>> +     static struct rpc_rqst *req_partial;
> >>> +
> >>> +     if (req_partial == NULL)
> >>> +             req = xprt_alloc_bc_request(xprt);
> >>> +     else if (req_partial->rq_xid == transport->tcp_xid)
> >>> +             req = req_partial;
> >> 
> >> What happens here if req_partial->rq_xid != transport->tcp_xid? AFAICS,
> >> req will be undefined. Either way, you cannot use a static variable for
> >> storage here: that isn't re-entrant.
> > 
> > Because metadata sever only have one slot for backchannel request,
> > req_partial->rq_xid == transport->tcp_xid always happens, if the callback
> > request just being splited in two sk_buffs. But req_partial->rq_xid !=
> > transport->tcp_xid may also happens in some special cases, such as
> > retransmission occurs?
> 
> If the server retransmits, then it is broken. The NFSv4.1 protocol does not 
> allow it to retransmit unless the connection breaks.

shaobingqing, are you actually seeing retransmission?  (If so, are we
setting up the callback client wrong?)

--b.

> 
> > If one callback request is splited in two sk_buffs, xs_tcp_read_callback
> > will be execute two times. The req_partial should be a static variable,
> > because  the second execution of xs_tcp_read_callback should use
> > the rpc_rqst allocated for the first execution, which saves information
> > copies from the first sk_buff.
> 
> No! This is a multi-threaded/process environment which can support multiple 
> connection. It is a bug to use a static variable.
> 
> --
> Trond Myklebust
> Linux NFS client maintainer
> 
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Reply via email to