libnsm.a: sm-notify sometimes ignores monitored hosts

Monitored host information is stored in files under /var/lib/nfs.
When visiting entries in the monitored hosts directory, libnsm.a
examines the value of dirent.d_type to determine if an entry is a
regular file.

According to readdir(3), the d_type field is not supported by all
file system types.  My root file system happens to be one where d_type
isn't supported.  Typical installations that use an ext-derived root
file system are not exposed to this issue, but those who use xfs, for
instance, are.

On such file systems, not only are remote peers not notified of
reboots, but the NSM state number is never incremented.  A statd warm
restart would not re-monitor any hosts that were monitored before
the restart.

When writing support/nsm/file.c, I copied the use of d_type from the
original statd code, so this has likely been an issue for some time.

Replace the use of d_type in support/nsm/file.c with a call to
lstat(2).  It's extra code, but is guaranteed to work on all file
system types.

Note there is a usage of d_type in gssd.  I'll let gssd and rpcpipefs
experts decide whether that's worth changing.

Fix for:

  https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>

diff --git a/support/nsm/file.c b/support/nsm/file.c
index 4714bbf50f2d7bedf9a662887c20c29705a145da..e21c7d43e58ec1c19e1d1a9b89cb459e467ab9cd 100644 (file)
--- a/support/nsm/file.c
+++ b/support/nsm/file.c
@@ -568,9 +568,8 @@ nsm_retire_monitored_hosts(void)
 
        while ((de = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
                char *src, *dst;
+               struct stat stb;
 
-               if (de->d_type != (unsigned char)DT_REG)
-                       continue;
                if (de->d_name[0] == '.')
                        continue;
 
@@ -580,6 +579,20 @@ nsm_retire_monitored_hosts(void)
                        continue;
                }
 
+               /* NB: not all file systems fill in d_type correctly */
+               if (lstat(src, &stb) == -1) {
+                       xlog_warn("Bad monitor file %s, skipping: %m",
+                                       de->d_name);
+                       free(src);
+                       continue;
+               }
+               if (!S_ISREG(stb.st_mode)) {
+                       xlog(D_GENERAL, "Skipping non-regular file %s",
+                                       de->d_name);
+                       free(src);
+                       continue;
+               }
+
                dst = nsm_make_record_pathname(NSM_NOTIFY_DIR, de->d_name);
                if (dst == NULL) {
                        free(src);
@@ -846,7 +859,7 @@ nsm_read_line(const char *hostname, const time_t timestamp, char *line,
 }
 
 /*
- * Given a filename, reads data from a file under NSM_MONITOR_DIR
+ * Given a filename, reads data from a file under "directory"
  * and invokes @func so caller can populate their in-core
  * database with this data.
  */
@@ -863,10 +876,15 @@ nsm_load_host(const char *directory, const char *filename, nsm_populate_t func)
        if (path == NULL)
                goto out_err;
 
-       if (stat(path, &stb) == -1) {
+       if (lstat(path, &stb) == -1) {
                xlog(L_ERROR, "Failed to stat %s: %m", path);
                goto out_freepath;
        }
+       if (!S_ISREG(stb.st_mode)) {
+               xlog(D_GENERAL, "Skipping non-regular file %s",
+                               path);
+               goto out_freepath;
+       }
 
        f = fopen(path, "r");
        if (f == NULL) {
@@ -913,8 +931,6 @@ nsm_load_dir(const char *directory, nsm_populate_t func)
        }
 
        while ((de = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
-               if (de->d_type != (unsigned char)DT_REG)
-                       continue;
                if (de->d_name[0] == '.')
                        continue;