This release is mostly bug fixes, clean-ups, and optimizations.
One notable set of fixes addresses a subtle buffer overflow issue
that occurs if a small RPC Call message arrives in an oversized
RPC record. This is only possible on a framed RPC transport such
as TCP.
Because NFSD shares the receive and send buffers in one set of
pages, an oversized RPC record steals pages from the send buffer
that will be used to construct the RPC Reply message. NFSD must
not assume that a full-sized buffer is always available to it;
otherwise, it will walk off the end of the send buffer while
constructing its reply.
In this release, we also introduce the ability for the server to
wait a moment for clients to return delegations before it responds
with NFS4ERR_DELAY. This saves a retransmit and a network round-
trip when a delegation recall is needed. This work will be built
upon in future releases.
The NFS server adds another shrinker to its collection. Because
courtesy clients can linger for quite some time, they might be
freeable when the server host comes under memory pressure. A new
shrinker has been added that releases courtesy client resources
during low memory scenarios.
Lastly, of note: the maximum number of operations per NFSv4
COMPOUND that NFSD can handle is increased from 16 to 50. There
are NFSv4 client implementations that need more than 16 to
successfully perform a mount operation that uses a pathname
with many components.
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Merge tag 'nfsd-6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux
Pull nfsd updates from Chuck Lever:
"This release is mostly bug fixes, clean-ups, and optimizations.
One notable set of fixes addresses a subtle buffer overflow issue that
occurs if a small RPC Call message arrives in an oversized RPC record.
This is only possible on a framed RPC transport such as TCP.
Because NFSD shares the receive and send buffers in one set of pages,
an oversized RPC record steals pages from the send buffer that will be
used to construct the RPC Reply message. NFSD must not assume that a
full-sized buffer is always available to it; otherwise, it will walk
off the end of the send buffer while constructing its reply.
In this release, we also introduce the ability for the server to wait
a moment for clients to return delegations before it responds with
NFS4ERR_DELAY. This saves a retransmit and a network round- trip when
a delegation recall is needed. This work will be built upon in future
releases.
The NFS server adds another shrinker to its collection. Because
courtesy clients can linger for quite some time, they might be
freeable when the server host comes under memory pressure. A new
shrinker has been added that releases courtesy client resources during
low memory scenarios.
Lastly, of note: the maximum number of operations per NFSv4 COMPOUND
that NFSD can handle is increased from 16 to 50. There are NFSv4
client implementations that need more than 16 to successfully perform
a mount operation that uses a pathname with many components"
* tag 'nfsd-6.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux: (53 commits)
nfsd: extra checks when freeing delegation stateids
nfsd: make nfsd4_run_cb a bool return function
nfsd: fix comments about spinlock handling with delegations
nfsd: only fill out return pointer on success in nfsd4_lookup_stateid
NFSD: fix use-after-free on source server when doing inter-server copy
NFSD: Cap rsize_bop result based on send buffer size
NFSD: Rename the fields in copy_stateid_t
nfsd: use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE to define nfsd_file_cache_stats_fops
nfsd: use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE to define nfsd_reply_cache_stats_fops
nfsd: use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE to define client_info_fops
nfsd: use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE to define export_features_fops and supported_enctypes_fops
nfsd: use DEFINE_PROC_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE to define nfsd_proc_ops
NFSD: Pack struct nfsd4_compoundres
NFSD: Remove unused nfsd4_compoundargs::cachetype field
NFSD: Remove "inline" directives on op_rsize_bop helpers
NFSD: Clean up nfs4svc_encode_compoundres()
SUNRPC: Fix typo in xdr_buf_subsegment's kdoc comment
NFSD: Clean up WRITE arg decoders
NFSD: Use xdr_inline_decode() to decode NFSv3 symlinks
NFSD: Refactor common code out of dirlist helpers
...