Nishant Puri has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.gerrithub.io/c/ffilz/nfs-ganesha/+/1238516?usp=email ) Change subject: SAL: recover gracefully from zombie lock-owner so_related_owner mismatch ...................................................................... SAL: recover gracefully from zombie lock-owner so_related_owner mismatch When a kernel NFSv4 client crashes or its lease expires while holding a byte-range lock, the lock-owner ID it generated via the IDA allocator (ida_simple_get) may be recycled for a completely new process. When that new process opens the same file and requests a lock, the server calls create_nfs4_owner() and finds an existing STATE_LOCK_OWNER_NFSV4 entry in ht_nfs4_owner whose opaque owner bytes match -- but whose so_related_owner points to the old (now-stale) open owner rather than the new one. Before this change the code unconditionally logged a CRIT message and returned NULL, which propagated to the client as NFS4ERR_RESOURCE. Because the client retried indefinitely the file appeared permanently "zombie locked" from that perspective. The root cause on the client side is IDA-based lock-owner ID recycling (fixed in upstream Linux kernels by switching to atomic64_inc_return, but still present in RHEL 8 / kernel 4.18 based deployments). The fix distinguishes two cases at the point of mismatch: 1. so_lock_list is non-empty (zombie still holds active POSIX locks): This is a genuine conflict. Keep the existing CRIT log and return NULL so the client receives NFS4ERR_RESOURCE and can retry cleanly. 2. so_lock_list is empty (zombie has no active POSIX locks): The lock owner is a harmless zombie whose POSIX-lock state was already released (e.g. after LOCKU without a subsequent CLOSE or FREE_STATEID). Re-associate so_related_owner to the new open owner instead of failing, allowing the incoming LOCK request to succeed. Reference counts are maintained correctly: the stale open-owner reference is decremented and the new one is incremented, both under so_mutex. Change-Id: I9b76a2582b9066b196b01c75a2777a6dd335ee9a Signed-off-by: Nishant Puri <npuri@redhat.com> --- M src/SAL/nfs4_owner.c 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) git pull ssh://review.gerrithub.io:29418/ffilz/nfs-ganesha refs/changes/16/1238516/1 -- To view, visit https://review.gerrithub.io/c/ffilz/nfs-ganesha/+/1238516?usp=email To unsubscribe, or for help writing mail filters, visit https://review.gerrithub.io/settings?usp=email Gerrit-MessageType: newchange Gerrit-Project: ffilz/nfs-ganesha Gerrit-Branch: next Gerrit-Change-Id: I9b76a2582b9066b196b01c75a2777a6dd335ee9a Gerrit-Change-Number: 1238516 Gerrit-PatchSet: 1 Gerrit-Owner: Nishant Puri <npuri@redhat.com>