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From: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
To: Dan Aloni <dan.aloni@vastdata.com>
Cc: trondmy@hammerspace.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sunrpc: fix NFSACL RPC retry on soft mount
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:04:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E0350193-7373-4C04-9AC9-D9126DCD2714@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240425104938.3363417-1-dan.aloni@vastdata.com>

On 25 Apr 2024, at 6:49, Dan Aloni wrote:

> It used to be quite awhile ago since 1b63a75180c6 ('SUNRPC: Refactor
> rpc_clone_client()'), in 2012, that `cl_timeout` was copied in so that
> all mount parameters propagate to NFSACL clients. However since that
> change, if mount options as follows are given:
>
>     soft,timeo=50,retrans=16,vers=3
>
> The resultant NFSACL client receives:
>
>     cl_softrtry: 1
>     cl_timeout: to_initval=60000, to_maxval=60000, to_increment=0, to_retries=2, to_exponential=0
>
> These values lead to NFSACL operations not being retried under the
> condition of transient network outages with soft mount. Instead, getacl
> call fails after 60 seconds with EIO.
>
> The simple fix is to pass the existing client's `cl_timeout` as the new
> client timeout.
>
> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
> Cc: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231105154857.ryakhmgaptq3hb6b@gmail.com/T/
> Fixes: 1b63a75180c6 ('SUNRPC: Refactor rpc_clone_client()')
> Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <dan.aloni@vastdata.com>

This also affects the local rpcbind, and makes the change in
6b996476f364 sunrpc: honor rpc_task's timeout value in rpcb_create()
redundant.  Just an observation, thanks for fixing this!

Reviewed-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@redhat.com>

Ben

> ---
>  net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> index cda0935a68c9..07ffd4ee695a 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
> @@ -1068,6 +1068,7 @@ struct rpc_clnt *rpc_bind_new_program(struct rpc_clnt *old,
>  		.version	= vers,
>  		.authflavor	= old->cl_auth->au_flavor,
>  		.cred		= old->cl_cred,
> +		.timeout	= old->cl_timeout,
>  	};
>  	struct rpc_clnt *clnt;
>  	int err;
> -- 
> 2.39.3


      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-25 11:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-25 10:49 [PATCH] sunrpc: fix NFSACL RPC retry on soft mount Dan Aloni
2024-04-25 11:04 ` Benjamin Coddington [this message]

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