The symlink implementation could improperly return a NULL vp along with

    a 0 error code.  The problem occured with NFSv2 mounts and also with
    any NFSv3 mount returning an EEXIST error (which is translated to 0
    prior to return).  The reply to the rpc only contains the file handle
    for the no-error case under NFSv3.  The error case under NFSv3 and
    all cases under NFSv2 do *not* return the file handle.  The fix is
    to do a secondary lookup to obtain the file handle and thus be able
    to generate a return vnode for the situations where the rpc reply
    does not contain the required information.

    The bug was originally introduced when VOP_SYMLINK semantics were
    changed for -CURRENT.  The NFS symlink implementation was not properly
    modified to go along with the change despite the fact that three
    people reviewed the code.  It took four attempts to get the current
    fix correct with five people.  Is NFS obfuscated?  Ha!

Reviewed by:	Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Testing and Discussion: "Viren R.Shah" <viren@rstcorp.com>, Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>, Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/sys/nfs/nfs_vnops.c b/sys/nfs/nfs_vnops.c
index 6c6ae61..e53b295 100644
--- a/sys/nfs/nfs_vnops.c
+++ b/sys/nfs/nfs_vnops.c
@@ -1805,24 +1805,54 @@ nfs_symlink(ap)
 		txdr_nfsv2time(&vap->va_atime, &sp->sa_atime);
 		txdr_nfsv2time(&vap->va_mtime, &sp->sa_mtime);
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Issue the NFS request and get the rpc response.
+	 *
+	 * Only NFSv3 responses returning an error of 0 actually return
+	 * a file handle that can be converted into newvp without having
+	 * to do an extra lookup rpc.
+	 */
 	nfsm_request(dvp, NFSPROC_SYMLINK, cnp->cn_proc, cnp->cn_cred);
 	if (v3) {
-		if (!error)
+		if (error == 0)
 			nfsm_mtofh(dvp, newvp, v3, gotvp);
 		nfsm_wcc_data(dvp, wccflag);
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * out code jumps -> here, mrep is also freed.
+	 */
+
 	nfsm_reqdone;
+
 	/*
-	 * Kludge: Map EEXIST => 0 assuming that it is a reply to a retry.
+	 * If we get an EEXIST error, silently convert it to no-error
+	 * in case of an NFS retry.
 	 */
 	if (error == EEXIST)
 		error = 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * If we do not have (or no longer have) an error, and we could
+	 * not extract the newvp from the response due to the request being
+	 * NFSv2 or the error being EEXIST.  We have to do a lookup in order
+	 * to obtain a newvp to return.  
+	 */
+	if (error == 0 && newvp == NULL) {
+		struct nfsnode *np = NULL;
+
+		error = nfs_lookitup(dvp, cnp->cn_nameptr, cnp->cn_namelen,
+		    cnp->cn_cred, cnp->cn_proc, &np);
+		if (!error)
+			newvp = NFSTOV(np);
+	}
 	if (error) {
 		if (newvp)
 			vput(newvp);
-	} else
+	} else {
 		*ap->a_vpp = newvp;
+	}
 	VTONFS(dvp)->n_flag |= NMODIFIED;
 	if (!wccflag)
 		VTONFS(dvp)->n_attrstamp = 0;