From de734831224e74fcaf8917386e33644c4243db95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chuck Lever Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:30:50 -0400 Subject: NFS: Treat NFS4ERR_CLID_INUSE as a fatal error For NFSv4 minor version 0, currently the cl_id_uniquifier allows the Linux client to generate a unique nfs_client_id4 string whenever a server replies with NFS4ERR_CLID_INUSE. This implementation seems to be based on a flawed reading of RFC 3530. NFS4ERR_CLID_INUSE actually means that the client has presented this nfs_client_id4 string with a different principal at some time in the past, and that lease is still in use on the server. For a Linux client this might be rather difficult to achieve: the authentication flavor is named right in the nfs_client_id4.id string. If we change flavors, we change strings automatically. So, practically speaking, NFS4ERR_CLID_INUSE means there is some other client using our string. There is not much that can be done to recover automatically. Let's make it a permanent error. Remove the recovery logic in nfs4_proc_setclientid(), and remove the cl_id_uniquifier field from the nfs_client data structure. And, remove the authentication flavor from the nfs_client_id4 string. Keeping the authentication flavor in the nfs_client_id4.id string means that we could have a separate lease for each authentication flavor used by mounts on the client. But we want just one lease for all the mounts on this client. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h') diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h b/include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h index f58325a1d8fb..65327652c61a 100644 --- a/include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h +++ b/include/linux/nfs_fs_sb.h @@ -69,10 +69,9 @@ struct nfs_client { struct idmap * cl_idmap; /* Our own IP address, as a null-terminated string. - * This is used to generate the clientid, and the callback address. + * This is used to generate the mv0 callback address. */ char cl_ipaddr[48]; - unsigned char cl_id_uniquifier; u32 cl_cb_ident; /* v4.0 callback identifier */ const struct nfs4_minor_version_ops *cl_mvops; -- cgit