History log of /linux-master/fs/afs/vl_alias.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 445f9b69 08-Nov-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Defer volume record destruction to a workqueue

Defer volume record destruction to a workqueue so that afs_put_volume()
isn't going to run the destruction process in the callback workqueue whilst
the server is holding up other clients whilst waiting for us to reply to a
CB.CallBack notification RPC.

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


# ca0e79a4 02-Nov-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Make it possible to find the volumes that are using a server

Make it possible to find the afs_volume structs that are using an
afs_server struct to aid in breaking volume callbacks.

The way this is done is that each afs_volume already has an array of
afs_server_entry records that point to the servers where that volume might
be found. An afs_volume backpointer and a list node is added to each entry
and each entry is then added to an RCU-traversable list on the afs_server
to which it points.

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


# f49b594d 31-Oct-2023 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Keep a record of the current fileserver endpoint state

Keep a record of the current fileserver endpoint state, including the probe
state, and replace it when a new probe is started rather than just
squelching the old state and overwriting it. Clearance of the old state
can cause a race if there's another thread also currently trying to
communicate with that server.

It appears that this race might be the culprit for some occasions where
kafs complains about invalid data in the RPC reply because the rotation
algorithm fell all the way through without actually issuing an RPC call and
the error return got filled in from the probe state (which has a zero error
recorded). Whatever happens to be in the caller's reply buffer is then
taken as the response.

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


# 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


# dca54a7b 13-Oct-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Add tracing for cell refcount and active user count

Add a tracepoint to log the cell refcount and active user count and pass in
a reason code through various functions that manipulate these counters.

Additionally, a helper function, afs_see_cell(), is provided to log
interesting places that deal with a cell without actually doing any
accounting directly.

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


# 88c853c3 23-Jul-2019 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Fix cell refcounting by splitting the usage counter

Management of the lifetime of afs_cell struct has some problems due to the
usage counter being used to determine whether objects of that type are in
use in addition to whether anyone might be interested in the structure.

This is made trickier by cell objects being cached for a period of time in
case they're quickly reused as they hold the result of a setup process that
may be slow (DNS lookups, AFS RPC ops).

Problems include the cached root volume from alias resolution pinning its
parent cell record, rmmod occasionally hanging and occasionally producing
assertion failures.

Fix this by splitting the count of active users from the struct reference
count. Things then work as follows:

(1) The cell cache keeps +1 on the cell's activity count and this has to
be dropped before the cell can be removed. afs_manage_cell() tries to
exchange the 1 to a 0 with the cells_lock write-locked, and if
successful, the record is removed from the net->cells.

(2) One struct ref is 'owned' by the activity count. That is put when the
active count is reduced to 0 (final_destruction label).

(3) A ref can be held on a cell whilst it is queued for management on a
work queue without confusing the active count. afs_queue_cell() is
added to wrap this.

(4) The queue's ref is dropped at the end of the management. This is
split out into a separate function, afs_manage_cell_work().

(5) The root volume record is put after a cell is removed (at the
final_destruction label) rather then in the RCU destruction routine.

(6) Volumes hold struct refs, but aren't active users.

(7) Both counts are displayed in /proc/net/afs/cells.

There are some management function changes:

(*) afs_put_cell() now just decrements the refcount and triggers the RCU
destruction if it becomes 0. It no longer sets a timer to have the
manager do this.

(*) afs_use_cell() and afs_unuse_cell() are added to increase and decrease
the active count. afs_unuse_cell() sets the management timer.

(*) afs_queue_cell() is added to queue a cell with approprate refs.

There are also some other fixes:

(*) Don't let /proc/net/afs/cells access a cell's vllist if it's NULL.

(*) Make sure that candidate cells in lookups are properly destroyed
rather than being simply kfree'd. This ensures the bits it points to
are destroyed also.

(*) afs_dec_cells_outstanding() is now called in cell destruction rather
than at "final_destruction". This ensures that cell->net is still
valid to the end of the destructor.

(*) As a consequence of the previous two changes, move the increment of
net->cells_outstanding that was at the point of insertion into the
tree to the allocation routine to correctly balance things.

Fixes: 989782dcdc91 ("afs: Overhaul cell database management")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


# fed79fd7 09-Jun-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Fix debugging statements with %px to be %p

Fix a couple of %px to be %p in debugging statements.

Fixes: e49c7b2f6de7 ("afs: Build an abstraction around an "operation" concept")
Fixes: 8a070a964877 ("afs: Detect cell aliases 1 - Cells with root volumes")
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# 9ca06525 09-Jun-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Fix use of BUG()

Fix afs_compare_addrs() to use WARN_ON(1) instead of BUG() and return 1
(ie. srx_a > srx_b).

There's no point trying to put actual error handling in as this should not
occur unless a new transport address type is allowed by AFS. And even if
it does, in this particular case, it'll just never match unknown types of
addresses. This BUG() was more of a 'you need to add a case here'
indicator.

Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>


# 20325960 29-Apr-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Reorganise volume and server trees to be rooted on the cell

Reorganise afs_volume objects such that they're in a tree keyed on volume
ID, rooted at on an afs_cell object rather than being in multiple trees,
each of which is rooted on an afs_server object.

afs_server structs become per-cell and acquire a pointer to the cell.

The process of breaking a callback then starts with finding the server by
its network address, following that to the cell and then looking up each
volume ID in the volume tree.

This is simpler than the afs_vol_interest/afs_cb_interest N:M mapping web
and allows those structs and the code for maintaining them to be simplified
or removed.

It does make a couple of things a bit more tricky, though:

(1) Operations now start with a volume, not a server, so there can be more
than one answer as to whether or not the server we'll end up using
supports the FS.InlineBulkStatus RPC.

(2) CB RPC operations that specify the server UUID. There's still a tree
of servers by UUID on the afs_net struct, but the UUIDs in it aren't
guaranteed unique.

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


# cca37d45 29-Apr-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Add a tracepoint to track the lifetime of the afs_volume struct

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

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


# 6dfdf536 27-Apr-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Detect cell aliases 3 - YFS Cells with a canonical cell name op

YFS Volume Location servers have an operation by which the cell name may be
queried. Use this to find out what a YFS server thinks the canonical cell
name should be.

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


# 6ef350b1 26-Apr-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Detect cell aliases 2 - Cells with no root volumes

Implement the second phase of cell alias detection. This part handles
alias detection for cells that don't have root.cell volumes and so we have
to find some other volume or fileserver to query.

We take the first volume from each such cell and attempt to look it up in
the new cell. If found, we compare the records, if they are the same, we
judge the cell names to be aliases.

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


# 8a070a96 25-Apr-2020 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

afs: Detect cell aliases 1 - Cells with root volumes

Put in the first phase of cell alias detection. This part handles alias
detection for cells that have root.cell volumes (which is expected to be
likely).

When a cell becomes newly active, it is probed for its root.cell volume,
and if it has one, this volume is compared against other root.cell volumes
to find out if the list of fileserver UUIDs have any in common - and if
that's the case, do the address lists of those fileservers have any
addresses in common. If they do, the new cell is adjudged to be an alias
of the old cell and the old cell is used instead.

Comparing is aided by the server list in struct afs_server_list being
sorted in UUID order and the addresses in the fileserver address lists
being sorted in address order.

The cell then retains the afs_volume object for the root.cell volume, even
if it's not mounted for future alias checking.

This necessary because:

(1) Whilst fileservers have UUIDs that are meant to be globally unique, in
practice they are not because cells get cloned without changing the
UUIDs - so afs_server records need to be per cell.

(2) Sometimes the DNS is used to make cell aliases - but if we don't know
they're the same, we may end up with multiple superblocks and multiple
afs_server records for the same thing, impairing our ability to
deliver callback notifications of third party changes

(3) The fileserver RPC API doesn't contain the cell name, so it can't tell
us which cell it's notifying and can't see that a change made to to
one cell should notify the same client that's also accessed as the
other cell.

Reported-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@auristor.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>