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David Howells adc9613ff6 afs: Adjust ACK interpretation to try and cope with NAT
If a client's address changes, say if it is NAT'd, this can disrupt an in
progress operation.  For most operations, this is not much of a problem,
but StoreData can be different as some servers modify the target file as
the data comes in, so if a store request is disrupted, the file can get
corrupted on the server.

The problem is that the server doesn't recognise packets that come after
the change of address as belonging to the original client and will bounce
them, either by sending an OUT_OF_SEQUENCE ACK to the apparent new call if
the packet number falls within the initial sequence number window of a call
or by sending an EXCEEDS_WINDOW ACK if it falls outside and then aborting
it.  In both cases, firstPacket will be 1 and previousPacket will be 0 in
the ACK information.

Fix this by the following means:

 (1) If a client call receives an EXCEEDS_WINDOW ACK with firstPacket as 1
     and previousPacket as 0, assume this indicates that the server saw the
     incoming packets from a different peer and thus as a different call.
     Fail the call with error -ENETRESET.

 (2) Also fail the call if a similar OUT_OF_SEQUENCE ACK occurs if the
     first packet has been hard-ACK'd.  If it hasn't been hard-ACK'd, the
     ACK packet will cause it to get retransmitted, so the call will just
     be repeated.

 (3) Make afs_select_fileserver() treat -ENETRESET as a straight fail of
     the operation.

 (4) Prioritise the error code over things like -ECONNRESET as the server
     did actually respond.

 (5) Make writeback treat -ENETRESET as a retryable error and make it
     redirty all the pages involved in a write so that the VM will retry.

Note that there is still a circumstance that I can't easily deal with: if
the operation is fully received and processed by the server, but the reply
is lost due to address change.  There's no way to know if the op happened.
We can examine the server, but a conflicting change could have been made by
a third party - and we can't tell the difference.  In such a case, a
message like:

    kAFS: vnode modified {100058:146266} b7->b8 YFS.StoreData64 (op=2646a)

will be logged to dmesg on the next op to touch the file and the client
will reset the inode state, including invalidating clean parts of the
pagecache.

Reported-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs/2021-December/004811.html # v1
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
History 2022-05-22 21:03:02 +01:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2022-05-19 11:23:59 -07:00
block block/mq-deadline: Set the fifo_time member also if inserting at head 2022-05-13 17:02:46 -06:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.18 2022-03-31 11:59:03 -07:00
crypto for-5.18/64bit-pi-2022-03-25 2022-03-26 12:01:35 -07:00
Documentation docs: change the title of networking docs 2022-05-19 18:44:57 -07:00
drivers net: ipa: use data space for command opcodes 2022-05-22 20:46:12 +01:00
fs afs: Adjust ACK interpretation to try and cope with NAT 2022-05-22 21:03:02 +01:00
include rxrpc: Automatically generate trace tag enums 2022-05-22 21:03:01 +01:00
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net afs: Adjust ACK interpretation to try and cope with NAT 2022-05-22 21:03:02 +01:00
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scripts objtool: Enable unreachable warnings for CLANG LTO 2022-04-19 21:58:48 +02:00
security selinux: fix bad cleanup on error in hashtab_duplicate() 2022-05-17 18:34:35 -04:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Restore Rane SL-1 quirk 2022-05-16 12:41:13 +02:00
tools selftests: Add test for timing a bind request to a port with a populated bhash entry 2022-05-20 18:16:24 -07:00
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virt Merge branch 'kvm-fixes-for-5.18-rc5' into HEAD 2022-04-29 12:39:34 -04:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS can: can-dev: remove obsolete CAN LED support 2022-05-19 22:15:51 +02:00
Makefile Linux 5.18-rc7 2022-05-15 18:08:58 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.