NFSD: Fix "start of NFS reply" pointer passed to nfsd_cache_update()

The "statp + 1" pointer that is passed to nfsd_cache_update() is
supposed to point to the start of the egress NFS Reply header. In
fact, it does point there for AUTH_SYS and RPCSEC_GSS_KRB5 requests.

But both krb5i and krb5p add fields between the RPC header's
accept_stat field and the start of the NFS Reply header. In those
cases, "statp + 1" points at the extra fields instead of the Reply.
The result is that nfsd_cache_update() caches what looks to the
client like garbage.

A connection break can occur for a number of reasons, but the most
common reason when using krb5i/p is a GSS sequence number window
underrun. When an underrun is detected, the server is obliged to
drop the RPC and the connection to force a retransmit with a fresh
GSS sequence number. The client presents the same XID, it hits in
the server's DRC, and the server returns the garbage cache entry.

The "statp + 1" argument has been used since the oldest changeset
in the kernel history repo, so it has been in nfsd_dispatch()
literally since before history began. The problem arose only when
the server-side GSS implementation was added twenty years ago.

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
index d6122bb2d167b4..b4e4e04f99317a 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c
@@ -981,6 +981,7 @@ int nfsd_dispatch(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	const struct svc_procedure *proc = rqstp->rq_procinfo;
 	__be32 *statp = rqstp->rq_accept_statp;
 	struct nfsd_cacherep *rp;
+	__be32 *nfs_reply;
 
 	/*
 	 * Give the xdr decoder a chance to change this if it wants
@@ -1010,6 +1011,7 @@ int nfsd_dispatch(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 		goto out_dropit;
 	}
 
+	nfs_reply = xdr_inline_decode(&rqstp->rq_res_stream, 0);
 	*statp = proc->pc_func(rqstp);
 	if (test_bit(RQ_DROPME, &rqstp->rq_flags))
 		goto out_update_drop;
@@ -1023,7 +1025,7 @@ int nfsd_dispatch(struct svc_rqst *rqstp)
 	 */
 	smp_store_release(&rqstp->rq_status_counter, rqstp->rq_status_counter + 1);
 
-	nfsd_cache_update(rqstp, rp, rqstp->rq_cachetype, statp + 1);
+	nfsd_cache_update(rqstp, rp, rqstp->rq_cachetype, nfs_reply);
 out_cached_reply:
 	return 1;