[LTP] LTP: tirpc_rpcb_rmtcall is failing

[Steve Dickson]

Hello,

On 5/12/23 3:43 AM, Petr Vorel wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> 
>> Hello Petr,
> 
>> On 5/4/23 6:16 AM, Petr Vorel wrote:
>>> Hi Steve,
> 
>>> tirpc_rpcb_rmtcall is failing. I was able to reproduce it on
>>> * openSUSE Tumbleweed with libtirpc 1.3.3
>>> * Debian stable  11 (bullseye) with libtirpc 1.3.1-1
> 
>>> OTOH SLE 15-SP4 with libtirpc 1.2.6 is working.
> 
>>> PATH="/opt/ltp/testcases/bin:$PATH" rpc_test.sh -s tirpc_svc_4 -c tirpc_rpcb_rmtcall
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: initialize 'lhost' 'ltp_ns_veth2' interface
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: add local addr 10.0.0.2/24
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: add local addr fd00:1:1:1::2/64
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: initialize 'rhost' 'ltp_ns_veth1' interface
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: add remote addr 10.0.0.1/24
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: add remote addr fd00:1:1:1::1/64
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: Network config (local -- remote):
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: ltp_ns_veth2 -- ltp_ns_veth1
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: 10.0.0.2/24 -- 10.0.0.1/24
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: fd00:1:1:1::2/64 -- fd00:1:1:1::1/64
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: timeout per run is 0h 5m 0s
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: check registered RPC with rpcinfo
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: registered RPC:
>>>      program vers proto   port  service
>>>       100000    4   tcp    111  portmapper
>>>       100000    3   tcp    111  portmapper
>>>       100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper
>>>       100000    4   udp    111  portmapper
>>>       100000    3   udp    111  portmapper
>>>       100000    2   udp    111  portmapper
>>>       100005    1   udp  20048  mountd
>>>       100005    1   tcp  20048  mountd
>>>       100005    2   udp  20048  mountd
>>>       100005    2   tcp  20048  mountd
>>>       100005    3   udp  20048  mountd
>>>       100005    3   tcp  20048  mountd
>>>       100024    1   udp  37966  status
>>>       100024    1   tcp  43643  status
>>>       100003    3   tcp   2049  nfs
>>>       100003    4   tcp   2049  nfs
>>>       100227    3   tcp   2049  nfs_acl
>>>       100021    1   udp  59603  nlockmgr
>>>       100021    3   udp  59603  nlockmgr
>>>       100021    4   udp  59603  nlockmgr
>>>       100021    1   tcp  39145  nlockmgr
>>>       100021    3   tcp  39145  nlockmgr
>>>       100021    4   tcp  39145  nlockmgr
>>> rpc_test 1 TINFO: using libtirpc: yes
>>> rpc_test 1 TFAIL: tirpc_rpcb_rmtcall 10.0.0.2 536875000 failed unexpectedly
>>> 1
> 
>>> The problem is in tirpc_rpcb_rmtcall.c [1], which calls rpcb_rmtcall(), which
>>> returns 1 (I suppose RPC_CANTENCODEARGS - can't encode arguments - enum
>>> clnt_stat from tirpc/rpc/clnt_stat.h):
> 
>>> 	cs = rpcb_rmtcall(nconf, argc[1], progNum, VERSNUM, PROCNUM,
>>> 			  (xdrproc_t) xdr_int, (char *)&var_snd,
>>> 			  (xdrproc_t) xdr_int, (char *)&var_rec, tv, &svcaddr);
> 
>>> 	test_status = (cs == RPC_SUCCESS) ? 0 : 1;
> 
>>> 	//This last printf gives the result status to the tests suite
>>> 	//normally should be 0: test has passed or 1: test has failed
>>> 	printf("%d\n", test_status);
> 
>>> 	return test_status;
> 
>>> Any idea what could be wrong with these very old tests?
>> No... No idea... but I'm unable to reproduce it. It appears
>> you are using different repo that the one I found on
>> github [1]. But...
> 
> Thanks a lot for looking into the issue.
> BTW on which Fedora/RHEL/CentOS version did you test?
Fedora 38... but I will keep trying...
> 
> No, I'm also using the official LTP repository on github [1].
> And I compile on recent glibc (> 2.32, which removed SUN-RPC) and with libtirpc:
> 
> ./configure
> ...
> libtirpc: yes
> glibc SUN-RPC: no
> 
>> Looking code, RPC_CANTENCODEARGS is returned when
>> there is an xdr problem which might means a
>> memory problem??
> 
>> With that said... commits 21718bbb^..fa153d63 did
> That was released on 1.3.3, but I'm able to reproduce it on
> Debian stable  11 (bullseye) with libtirpc 1.3.1-1.
Good to know... thanks!

steved.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Petr
> 
>> make a lot of changes in the locking and cache
>> management.
> 
>> steved.
> 
>> [1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp
> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Petr
> 
>>> [1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/12765c115f11026c090ab0ee5dd79b38d95ef31f/testcases/network/rpc/rpc-tirpc/tests_pack/rpc_suite/tirpc/tirpc_expertlevel_rpcb_rmtcall/tirpc_rpcb_rmtcall.c#L91-L93
> 
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