afs: Fix client call Rx-phase signal handling

Fix the handling of signals in client rxrpc calls made by the afs
filesystem.  Ignore signals completely, leaving call abandonment or
connection loss to be detected by timeouts inside AF_RXRPC.

Allowing a filesystem call to be interrupted after the entire request has
been transmitted and an abort sent means that the server may or may not
have done the action - and we don't know.  It may even be worse than that
for older servers.

Fixes: bc5e3a546d55 ("rxrpc: Use MSG_WAITALL to tell sendmsg() to temporarily ignore signals")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
index 7603cf811f75..15ee92d79581 100644
--- a/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
+++ b/net/rxrpc/af_rxrpc.c
@@ -371,45 +371,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(rxrpc_kernel_end_call);
  * rxrpc_kernel_check_life - Check to see whether a call is still alive
  * @sock: The socket the call is on
  * @call: The call to check
- * @_life: Where to store the life value
  *
- * Allow a kernel service to find out whether a call is still alive - ie. we're
- * getting ACKs from the server.  Passes back in *_life a number representing
- * the life state which can be compared to that returned by a previous call and
- * return true if the call is still alive.
- *
- * If the life state stalls, rxrpc_kernel_probe_life() should be called and
- * then 2RTT waited.
+ * Allow a kernel service to find out whether a call is still alive -
+ * ie. whether it has completed.
  */
 bool rxrpc_kernel_check_life(const struct socket *sock,
-			     const struct rxrpc_call *call,
-			     u32 *_life)
+			     const struct rxrpc_call *call)
 {
-	*_life = call->acks_latest;
 	return call->state != RXRPC_CALL_COMPLETE;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(rxrpc_kernel_check_life);
 
 /**
- * rxrpc_kernel_probe_life - Poke the peer to see if it's still alive
- * @sock: The socket the call is on
- * @call: The call to check
- *
- * In conjunction with rxrpc_kernel_check_life(), allow a kernel service to
- * find out whether a call is still alive by pinging it.  This should cause the
- * life state to be bumped in about 2*RTT.
- *
- * The must be called in TASK_RUNNING state on pain of might_sleep() objecting.
- */
-void rxrpc_kernel_probe_life(struct socket *sock, struct rxrpc_call *call)
-{
-	rxrpc_propose_ACK(call, RXRPC_ACK_PING, 0, true, false,
-			  rxrpc_propose_ack_ping_for_check_life);
-	rxrpc_send_ack_packet(call, true, NULL);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(rxrpc_kernel_probe_life);
-
-/**
  * rxrpc_kernel_get_epoch - Retrieve the epoch value from a call.
  * @sock: The socket the call is on
  * @call: The call to query