NFSD: Force all NFSv4.2 COPY requests to be synchronous

commit 8d915bbf39 upstream.

We've discovered that delivering a CB_OFFLOAD operation can be
unreliable in some pretty unremarkable situations. Examples
include:

 - The server dropped the connection because it lost a forechannel
   NFSv4 request and wishes to force the client to retransmit
 - The GSS sequence number window under-flowed
 - A network partition occurred

When that happens, all pending callback operations, including
CB_OFFLOAD, are lost. NFSD does not retransmit them.

Moreover, the Linux NFS client does not yet support sending an
OFFLOAD_STATUS operation to probe whether an asynchronous COPY
operation has finished. Thus, on Linux NFS clients, when a
CB_OFFLOAD is lost, asynchronous COPY can hang until manually
interrupted.

I've tried a couple of remedies, but so far the side-effects are
worse than the disease and they have had to be reverted. So
temporarily force COPY operations to be synchronous so that the use
of CB_OFFLOAD is avoided entirely. This is a fix that can easily be
backported to LTS kernels. I am working on client patches that
introduce an implementation of OFFLOAD_STATUS.

Note that NFSD arbitrarily limits the size of a copy_file_range
to 4MB to avoid indefinitely blocking an nfsd thread. A short
COPY result is returned in that case, and the client can present
a fresh COPY request for the remainder.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
[ Backport from v6.10-rc1 ]
Signed-off-by: Zhao Qiang <zhao.qiang11@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: WangYuli <wangyuli@uniontech.com>
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Chuck Lever 2024-11-13 15:38:46 +08:00 committed by Wang huai
parent 9d3c7c0721
commit 7a1388d443
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@ -1794,6 +1794,13 @@ nfsd4_copy(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate,
struct nfsd42_write_res *result;
__be32 status;
/*
* Currently, async COPY is not reliable. Force all COPY
* requests to be synchronous to avoid client application
* hangs waiting for COPY completion.
*/
nfsd4_copy_set_sync(copy, true);
result = &copy->cp_res;
nfsd_copy_write_verifier((__be32 *)&result->wr_verifier.data, nn);