[2.6.26-rc4] mount.nfsv4/memory poisoning issues...

[Jeff Layton]

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:33:32 -0400
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at fys.uio.no> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 16:13 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> > We can't call nfs_callback_down() until after nfs_callback_up()
> > returns, so we're guaranteed to have "task" set to a valid task
> > (presuming that nfs_callback_up() doesn't return error). We also can't
> > return from nfs_callback_down() until after the nfs_callback_svc() has
> > exited. kthread_stop() will block until it does.
> 
> The code I'm alluding to is in kthread():
> 
>        /* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
>         __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
>         complete(&create->started);
>         schedule();
> 
>         if (!kthread_should_stop())
>                 ret = threadfn(data);
> 
> schedule() is called _after_ the complete() call, and _before_ we
> execute threadfn() a.k.a. nfs_callback_svc(). If nfs_alloc_client() has
> time to call nfs_callback_down() before the above thread gets scheduled
> back in, then threadfn() doesn't get called at all, since
> kthread_should_stop() is true.
> 

That makes total sense. Thanks for clearing it up.

Cheers,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>