nfsd: fix clock domain mismatch in clients_still_reclaiming()

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clients_still_reclaiming() computes a deadline from nn->boot_time
(CLOCK_REALTIME, ~1.7 billion) but compares it against
ktime_get_boottime_seconds() (CLOCK_BOOTTIME, seconds since boot).
The comparison is always false — it would take ~54 years of uptime
for BOOTTIME to exceed the REALTIME-derived deadline.

This means any client can hold the server in grace indefinitely by
sending CLAIM_PREVIOUS OPEN requests, blocking all non-reclaim
operations for all other clients.

Add boot_time_bt (CLOCK_BOOTTIME) alongside the existing boot_time
and use it for the deadline computation. boot_time (CLOCK_REALTIME)
is preserved for its cl_boot clientid-nonce role.

Fixes: 20b7d86f29 ("nfsd: use boottime for lease expiry calculation")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260611-nfsd-testing-v2-12-5b90e276f2d9@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>

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Jeff Layton 2026-06-11 16:00:55 -04:00 • committed by Chuck Lever

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