History log of /linux-master/fs/afs/addr_list.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# b605ee42 30-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Remove the unimplemented afs_cmp_addr_list()

Remove afs_cmp_addr_list() as it was never implemented.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# 98f9fda2 20-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Fold the afs_addr_cursor struct in

Fold the afs_addr_cursor struct into the afs_operation struct and the
afs_vl_cursor struct and fold its operations into their callers also.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# e38f299e 26-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Use peer + service_id as call address

Use the rxrpc_peer plus the service ID as the call address instead of
passing in a sockaddr_srx down to rxrpc. The peer record is obtained by
using rxrpc_kernel_get_peer(). This avoids the need to repeatedly look up
the peer and allows rxrpc to hold on to resources for it.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# 1e5d8493 19-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Add a tracepoint for struct afs_addr_list

Add a tracepoint to track the lifetime of the afs_addr_list struct.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# aa453bec 25-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Simplify error handling

Simplify error handling a bit by moving it from the afs_addr_cursor struct
to the afs_operation and afs_vl_cursor structs and using the error
prioritisation function for accumulating errors from multiple sources (AFS
tries to rotate between multiple fileservers, some of which may be
inaccessible or in some state of offlinedness).

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# aa4917d6 20-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Rename addr_list::failed to probe_failed

Rename the failed member of struct addr_list to probe_failed as it's
specifically related to probe failures.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# 72904d7b 18-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc, afs: Allow afs to pin rxrpc_peer objects

Change rxrpc's API such that:

(1) A new function, rxrpc_kernel_lookup_peer(), is provided to look up an
rxrpc_peer record for a remote address and a corresponding function,
rxrpc_kernel_put_peer(), is provided to dispose of it again.

(2) When setting up a call, the rxrpc_peer object used during a call is
now passed in rather than being set up by rxrpc_connect_call(). For
afs, this meenat passing it to rxrpc_kernel_begin_call() rather than
the full address (the service ID then has to be passed in as a
separate parameter).

(3) A new function, rxrpc_kernel_remote_addr(), is added so that afs can
get a pointer to the transport address for display purposed, and
another, rxrpc_kernel_remote_srx(), to gain a pointer to the full
rxrpc address.

(4) The function to retrieve the RTT from a call, rxrpc_kernel_get_srtt(),
is then altered to take a peer. This now returns the RTT or -1 if
there are insufficient samples.

(5) Rename rxrpc_kernel_get_peer() to rxrpc_kernel_call_get_peer().

(6) Provide a new function, rxrpc_kernel_get_peer(), to get a ref on a
peer the caller already has.

This allows the afs filesystem to pin the rxrpc_peer records that it is
using, allowing faster lookups and pointer comparisons rather than
comparing sockaddr_rxrpc contents. It also makes it easier to get hold of
the RTT. The following changes are made to afs:

(1) The addr_list struct's addrs[] elements now hold a peer struct pointer
and a service ID rather than a sockaddr_rxrpc.

(2) When displaying the transport address, rxrpc_kernel_remote_addr() is
used.

(3) The port arg is removed from afs_alloc_addrlist() since it's always
overridden.

(4) afs_merge_fs_addr4() and afs_merge_fs_addr6() do peer lookup and may
now return an error that must be handled.

(5) afs_find_server() now takes a peer pointer to specify the address.

(6) afs_find_server(), afs_compare_fs_alists() and afs_merge_fs_addr[46]{}
now do peer pointer comparison rather than address comparison.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# 07f3502b 18-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Turn the afs_addr_list address array into an array of structs

Turn the afs_addr_list address array into an array of structs, thereby
allowing per-address (such as RTT) info to be added.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# ddd2b85f 12-Mar-2020 Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>

afs: Use kfree_rcu() instead of casting kfree() to rcu_callback_t

afs_put_addrlist() casts kfree() to rcu_callback_t. Apart from being wrong
in theory, this might also blow up when people start enforcing function
types via compiler instrumentation, and it means the rcu_head has to be
first in struct afs_addr_list.

Use kfree_rcu() instead, it's simpler and more correct.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# a58946c1 26-Jun-2019 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

keys: Pass the network namespace into request_key mechanism

Create a request_key_net() function and use it to pass the network
namespace domain tag into DNS revolver keys and rxrpc/AFS keys so that keys
for different domains can coexist in the same keyring.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org


# b4d0d230 20-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 36

Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public licence as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the licence or at
your option any later version

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 114 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520170857.552531963@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# d0660f0b 03-May-2019 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

dns_resolver: Allow used keys to be invalidated

Allow used DNS resolver keys to be invalidated after use if the caller is
doing its own caching of the results. This reduces the amount of resources
required.

Fix AFS to invalidate DNS results to kill off permanent failure records
that get lodged in the resolver keyring and prevent future lookups from
happening.

Fixes: 0a5143f2f89c ("afs: Implement VL server rotation")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 3bf0fb6f 19-Oct-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Probe multiple fileservers simultaneously

Send probes to all the unprobed fileservers in a fileserver list on all
addresses simultaneously in an attempt to find out the fastest route whilst
not getting stuck for 20s on any server or address that we don't get a
reply from.

This alleviates the problem whereby attempting to access a new server can
take a long time because the rotation algorithm ends up rotating through
all servers and addresses until it finds one that responds.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 2feeaf84 19-Oct-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Eliminate the address pointer from the address list cursor

Eliminate the address pointer from the address list cursor as it's
redundant (ac->addrs[ac->index] can be used to find the same address) and
address lists must be replaced rather than being rearranged, so is of
limited value.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 744bcd71 19-Oct-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Allow dumping of server cursor on operation failure

Provide an option to allow the file or volume location server cursor to be
dumped if the rotation routine falls off the end without managing to
contact a server.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 0a5143f2 19-Oct-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Implement VL server rotation

Track VL servers as independent entities rather than lumping all their
addresses together into one set and implement server-level rotation by:

(1) Add the concept of a VL server list, where each server has its own
separate address list. This code is similar to the FS server list.

(2) Use the DNS resolver to retrieve a set of servers and their associated
addresses, ports, preference and weight ratings.

(3) In the case of a legacy DNS resolver or an address list given directly
through /proc/net/afs/cells, create a list containing just a dummy
server record and attach all the addresses to that.

(4) Implement a simple rotation policy, for the moment ignoring the
priorities and weights assigned to the servers.

(5) Show the address list through /proc/net/afs/<cell>/vlservers. This
also displays the source and status of the data as indicated by the
upcall.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# e7f680f4 19-Oct-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Improve FS server rotation error handling

Improve the error handling in FS server rotation by:

(1) Cache the latest useful error value for the fs operation as a whole in
struct afs_fs_cursor separately from the error cached in the
afs_addr_cursor struct. The one in the address cursor gets clobbered
occasionally. Copy over the error to the fs operation only when it's
something we'd be interested in passing to userspace.

(2) Make it so that EDESTADDRREQ is the default that is seen only if no
addresses are available to be accessed.

(3) When calling utility functions, such as checking a volume status or
probing a fileserver, don't let a successful result clobber the cached
error in the cursor; instead, stash the result in a temporary variable
until it has been assessed.

(4) Don't return ETIMEDOUT or ETIME if a better error, such as
ENETUNREACH, is already cached.

(5) On leaving the rotation loop, turn any remote abort code into a more
useful error than ECONNABORTED.

Fixes: d2ddc776a458 ("afs: Overhaul volume and server record caching and fileserver rotation")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 46894a13 04-Oct-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

rxrpc: Use IPv4 addresses throught the IPv6

AF_RXRPC opens an IPv6 socket through which to send and receive network
packets, both IPv6 and IPv4. It currently turns AF_INET addresses into
AF_INET-as-AF_INET6 addresses based on an assumption that this was
necessary; on further inspection of the code, however, it turns out that
the IPv6 code just farms packets aimed at AF_INET addresses out to the IPv4
code.

Fix AF_RXRPC to use AF_INET addresses directly when given them.

Fixes: 7b674e390e51 ("rxrpc: Fix IPv6 support")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 66be646b 04-Oct-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Sort address lists so that they are in logical ascending order

Sort address lists so that they are in logical ascending order rather than
being partially in ascending order of the BE representations of those
values.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 4c19bbdc 04-Oct-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Always build address lists using the helper functions

Make the address list string parser use the helper functions for adding
addresses to an address list so that they end up appropriately sorted.
This will better handles overruns and make them easier to compare.

It also reduces the number of places that addresses are handled, making it
easier to fix the handling.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 68eb64c3 04-Oct-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Do better max capacity handling on address lists

Note the maximum allocated capacity in an afs_addr_list struct and discard
addresses that would exceed it in afs_merge_fs_addr{4,6}().

Also, since the current maximum capacity is less than 255, reduce the
relevant members to bytes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# c88d5a7f 15-Jun-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Enable IPv6 DNS lookups

Remove the restriction on DNS lookup upcalls that prevents ipv6 addresses
from being looked up.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# acafe7e3 08-May-2018 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

treewide: Use struct_size() for kmalloc()-family

One of the more common cases of allocation size calculations is finding
the size of a structure that has a zero-sized array at the end, along
with memory for some number of elements for that array. For example:

struct foo {
int stuff;
void *entry[];
};

instance = kmalloc(sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(void *) * count, GFP_KERNEL);

Instead of leaving these open-coded and prone to type mistakes, we can
now use the new struct_size() helper:

instance = kmalloc(struct_size(instance, entry, count), GFP_KERNEL);

This patch makes the changes for kmalloc()-family (and kvmalloc()-family)
uses. It was done via automatic conversion with manual review for the
"CHECKME" non-standard cases noted below, using the following Coccinelle
script:

// pkey_cache = kmalloc(sizeof *pkey_cache + tprops->pkey_tbl_len *
// sizeof *pkey_cache->table, GFP_KERNEL);
@@
identifier alloc =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
expression GFP;
identifier VAR, ELEMENT;
expression COUNT;
@@

- alloc(sizeof(*VAR) + COUNT * sizeof(*VAR->ELEMENT), GFP)
+ alloc(struct_size(VAR, ELEMENT, COUNT), GFP)

// mr = kzalloc(sizeof(*mr) + m * sizeof(mr->map[0]), GFP_KERNEL);
@@
identifier alloc =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
expression GFP;
identifier VAR, ELEMENT;
expression COUNT;
@@

- alloc(sizeof(*VAR) + COUNT * sizeof(VAR->ELEMENT[0]), GFP)
+ alloc(struct_size(VAR, ELEMENT, COUNT), GFP)

// Same pattern, but can't trivially locate the trailing element name,
// or variable name.
@@
identifier alloc =~ "kmalloc|kzalloc|kvmalloc|kvzalloc";
expression GFP;
expression SOMETHING, COUNT, ELEMENT;
@@

- alloc(sizeof(SOMETHING) + COUNT * sizeof(ELEMENT), GFP)
+ alloc(CHECKME_struct_size(&SOMETHING, ELEMENT, COUNT), GFP)

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# 01fd79e6 09-May-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Fix address list parsing

The parsing of port specifiers in the address list obtained from the DNS
resolution upcall doesn't work as in4_pton() and in6_pton() will fail on
encountering an unexpected delimiter (in this case, the '+' marking the
port number). However, in*_pton() can't be given multiple specifiers.

Fix this by finding the delimiter in advance and not relying on in*_pton()
to find the end of the address for us.

Fixes: 8b2a464ced77 ("afs: Add an address list concept")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# fe342cf7 09-Apr-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Fix checker warnings

Fix warnings raised by checker, including:

(*) Warnings raised by unequal comparison for the purposes of sorting,
where the endianness doesn't matter:

fs/afs/addr_list.c:246:21: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer
fs/afs/addr_list.c:246:30: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer
fs/afs/addr_list.c:248:21: warning: restricted __be32 degrades to integer
fs/afs/addr_list.c:248:49: warning: restricted __be32 degrades to integer
fs/afs/addr_list.c:283:21: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer
fs/afs/addr_list.c:283:30: warning: restricted __be16 degrades to integer

(*) afs_set_cb_interest() is not actually used and can be removed.

(*) afs_cell_gc_delay() should be provided with a sysctl.

(*) afs_cell_destroy() needs to use rcu_access_pointer() to read
cell->vl_addrs.

(*) afs_init_fs_cursor() should be static.

(*) struct afs_vnode::permit_cache needs to be marked __rcu.

(*) afs_server_rcu() needs to use rcu_access_pointer().

(*) afs_destroy_server() should use rcu_access_pointer() on
server->addresses as the server object is no longer accessible.

(*) afs_find_server() casts __be16/__be32 values to int in order to
directly compare them for the purpose of finding a match in a list,
but is should also annotate the cast with __force to avoid checker
warnings.

(*) afs_check_permit() accesses vnode->permit_cache outside of the RCU
readlock, though it doesn't then access the value; the extraneous
access is deleted.

False positives:

(*) Conditional locking around the code in xdr_decode_AFSFetchStatus. This
can be dealt with in a separate patch.

fs/afs/fsclient.c:148:9: warning: context imbalance in 'xdr_decode_AFSFetchStatus' - different lock contexts for basic block

(*) Incorrect handling of seq-retry lock context balance:

fs/afs/inode.c:455:38: warning: context imbalance in 'afs_getattr' - different
lock contexts for basic block
fs/afs/server.c:52:17: warning: context imbalance in 'afs_find_server' - different lock contexts for basic block
fs/afs/server.c:128:17: warning: context imbalance in 'afs_find_server_by_uuid' - different lock contexts for basic block

Errors:

(*) afs_lookup_cell_rcu() needs to break out of the seq-retry loop, not go
round again if it successfully found the workstation cell.

(*) Fix UUID decode in afs_deliver_cb_probe_uuid().

(*) afs_cache_permit() has a missing rcu_read_unlock() before one of the
jumps to the someone_else_changed_it label. Move the unlock to after
the label.

(*) afs_vl_get_addrs_u() is using ntohl() rather than htonl() when
encoding to XDR.

(*) afs_deliver_yfsvl_get_endpoints() is using htonl() rather than ntohl()
when decoding from XDR.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# fe4d774c 05-Feb-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Fix missing cursor clearance

afs_select_fileserver() ends the address cursor it is using in the case in
which we get some sort of network error and run out of addresses to iterate
through, before it jumps to try the next server. This also needs to be
done when the server aborts with some sort of error that means we should
try the next server.

Fix this by:

(1) Move the iterate_address afs_end_cursor() call to the next_server
case.

(2) End the cursor in the failed case.

(3) Make afs_end_cursor() clear the ->begun flag and ->addr pointer in the
address cursor.

(4) Make afs_end_cursor() able to be called on an already cleared cursor.

Without this, something like the following oops may occur:

AFS: Assertion failed
18446612134397189888 == 0 is false
0xffff88007c279f00 == 0x0 is false
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/afs/rotate.c:360!
RIP: 0010:afs_select_fileserver+0x79b/0xa30 [kafs]
Call Trace:
afs_statfs+0xcc/0x180 [kafs]
? p9_client_statfs+0x9e/0x110 [9pnet]
? _cond_resched+0x19/0x40
statfs_by_dentry+0x6d/0x90
vfs_statfs+0x1b/0xc0
user_statfs+0x4b/0x80
SYSC_statfs+0x15/0x30
SyS_statfs+0xe/0x10
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x20/0x83

Fixes: d2ddc776a458 ("afs: Overhaul volume and server record caching and fileserver rotation")
Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org


# bf99a53c 02-Nov-2017 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Make use of the YFS service upgrade to fully support IPv6

YFS VL servers offer an upgraded Volume Location service that can return
IPv6 addresses to fileservers and volume servers in addition to IPv4
addresses using the YFSVL.GetEndpoints operation which we should use if
it's available.

To this end:

(1) Make rxrpc_kernel_recv_data() return the call's current service ID so
that the caller can detect service upgrade and see what the service
was upgraded to.

(2) When we see a VL server address we haven't seen before, send a
VL.GetCapabilities operation to it with the service upgrade bit set.

If we get an upgrade to the YFS VL service, change the service ID in
the address list for that address to use the upgraded service and set
a flag to note that this appears to be a YFS-compatible server.

(3) If, when a server's addresses are being looked up, we note that we
previously detected a YFS-compatible server, then send the
YFSVL.GetEndpoints operation rather than VL.GetAddrsU.

(4) Build a fileserver address list from the reply of YFSVL.GetEndpoints,
including both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Volume server addresses are
discarded.

(5) The address list is sorted by address and port now, instead of just
address. This allows multiple servers on the same host sitting on
different ports.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# d2ddc776 02-Nov-2017 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Overhaul volume and server record caching and fileserver rotation

The current code assumes that volumes and servers are per-cell and are
never shared, but this is not enforced, and, indeed, public cells do exist
that are aliases of each other. Further, an organisation can, say, set up
a public cell and a private cell with overlapping, but not identical, sets
of servers. The difference is purely in the database attached to the VL
servers.

The current code will malfunction if it sees a server in two cells as it
assumes global address -> server record mappings and that each server is in
just one cell.

Further, each server may have multiple addresses - and may have addresses
of different families (IPv4 and IPv6, say).

To this end, the following structural changes are made:

(1) Server record management is overhauled:

(a) Server records are made independent of cell. The namespace keeps
track of them, volume records have lists of them and each vnode
has a server on which its callback interest currently resides.

(b) The cell record no longer keeps a list of servers known to be in
that cell.

(c) The server records are now kept in a flat list because there's no
single address to sort on.

(d) Server records are now keyed by their UUID within the namespace.

(e) The addresses for a server are obtained with the VL.GetAddrsU
rather than with VL.GetEntryByName, using the server's UUID as a
parameter.

(f) Cached server records are garbage collected after a period of
non-use and are counted out of existence before purging is allowed
to complete. This protects the work functions against rmmod.

(g) The servers list is now in /proc/fs/afs/servers.

(2) Volume record management is overhauled:

(a) An RCU-replaceable server list is introduced. This tracks both
servers and their coresponding callback interests.

(b) The superblock is now keyed on cell record and numeric volume ID.

(c) The volume record is now tied to the superblock which mounts it,
and is activated when mounted and deactivated when unmounted.
This makes it easier to handle the cache cookie without causing a
double-use in fscache.

(d) The volume record is loaded from the VLDB using VL.GetEntryByNameU
to get the server UUID list.

(e) The volume name is updated if it is seen to have changed when the
volume is updated (the update is keyed on the volume ID).

(3) The vlocation record is got rid of and VLDB records are no longer
cached. Sufficient information is stored in the volume record, though
an update to a volume record is now no longer shared between related
volumes (volumes come in bundles of three: R/W, R/O and backup).

and the following procedural changes are made:

(1) The fileserver cursor introduced previously is now fleshed out and
used to iterate over fileservers and their addresses.

(2) Volume status is checked during iteration, and the server list is
replaced if a change is detected.

(3) Server status is checked during iteration, and the address list is
replaced if a change is detected.

(4) The abort code is saved into the address list cursor and -ECONNABORTED
returned in afs_make_call() if a remote abort happened rather than
translating the abort into an error message. This allows actions to
be taken depending on the abort code more easily.

(a) If a VMOVED abort is seen then this is handled by rechecking the
volume and restarting the iteration.

(b) If a VBUSY, VRESTARTING or VSALVAGING abort is seen then this is
handled by sleeping for a short period and retrying and/or trying
other servers that might serve that volume. A message is also
displayed once until the condition has cleared.

(c) If a VOFFLINE abort is seen, then this is handled as VBUSY for the
moment.

(d) If a VNOVOL abort is seen, the volume is rechecked in the VLDB to
see if it has been deleted; if not, the fileserver is probably
indicating that the volume couldn't be attached and needs
salvaging.

(e) If statfs() sees one of these aborts, it does not sleep, but
rather returns an error, so as not to block the umount program.

(5) The fileserver iteration functions in vnode.c are now merged into
their callers and more heavily macroised around the cursor. vnode.c
is removed.

(6) Operations on a particular vnode are serialised on that vnode because
the server will lock that vnode whilst it operates on it, so a second
op sent will just have to wait.

(7) Fileservers are probed with FS.GetCapabilities before being used.
This is where service upgrade will be done.

(8) A callback interest on a fileserver is set up before an FS operation
is performed and passed through to afs_make_call() so that it can be
set on the vnode if the operation returns a callback. The callback
interest is passed through to afs_iget() also so that it can be set
there too.

In general, record updating is done on an as-needed basis when we try to
access servers, volumes or vnodes rather than offloading it to work items
and special threads.

Notes:

(1) Pre AFS-3.4 servers are no longer supported, though this can be added
back if necessary (AFS-3.4 was released in 1998).

(2) VBUSY is retried forever for the moment at intervals of 1s.

(3) /proc/fs/afs/<cell>/servers no longer exists.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# 8b2a464c 02-Nov-2017 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Add an address list concept

Add an RCU replaceable address list structure to hold a list of server
addresses. The list also holds the

To this end:

(1) A cell's VL server address list can be loaded directly via insmod or
echo to /proc/fs/afs/cells or dynamically from a DNS query for AFSDB
or SRV records.

(2) Anyone wanting to use a cell's VL server address must wait until the
cell record comes online and has tried to obtain some addresses.

(3) An FS server's address list, for the moment, has a single entry that
is the key to the server list. This will change in the future when a
server is instead keyed on its UUID and the VL.GetAddrsU operation is
used.

(4) An 'address cursor' concept is introduced to handle iteration through
the address list. This is passed to the afs_make_call() as, in the
future, stuff (such as abort code) that doesn't outlast the call will
be returned in it.

In the future, we might want to annotate the list with information about
how each address fares. We might then want to propagate such annotations
over address list replacement.

Whilst we're at it, we allow IPv6 addresses to be specified in
colon-delimited lists by enclosing them in square brackets.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>