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Trond Myklebust
bfc69a4566 NFS: define a function to update nfsi->cache_change_attribute
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:47 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
77f111929d NFS: Ensure that we eject stale inodes as soon as possible
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:22 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
d45b9d8baf NFS: Handle -ENOENT errors in unlink()/rmdir()/rename()
If the server returns an ENOENT error, we still need to do a d_delete() in
order to ensure that the dentry is deleted.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:22 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
fccca7fc6a NFS: Fix a sillyrename race...
Ensure that readdir revalidates its data cache after blocking on
sillyrename.

Also fix a typo in nfs_do_call_unlink(): swap the ^= for an |=. The result
is the same, since we've already checked that the flag is unset, but it
makes the code more readable.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-01-30 02:05:21 -05:00
Adrian Bunk
4c30d56edc NFS: fs/nfs/dir.c should #include "internal.h"
Every file should include the headers containing the prototypes for its global
functions (in this case nfs_access_cache_shrinker()).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-11-26 16:24:49 -05:00
Trond Myklebust
565277f63c NFS: Fix a race in sillyrename
lookup() and sillyrename() can race one another because the sillyrename()
completion cannot take the parent directory's inode->i_mutex since the
latter may be held by whoever is calling dput().

We therefore have little option but to add extra locking to ensure that
nfs_lookup() and nfs_atomic_open() do not race with the sillyrename
completion.
If somebody has looked up the sillyrenamed file in the meantime, we just
transfer the sillydelete information to the new dentry.

Please refer to the bug-report at
	http://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-19 17:19:16 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f43bf0bebe NFS: Add a boot parameter to disable 64 bit inode numbers
This boot parameter will allow legacy 32-bit applications which call stat()
to continue to function even if the NFSv3/v4 server uses 64-bit inode
numbers.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:52 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
c7c209730d NFS: Get rid of some obsolete macros
- NFS_READTIME, NFS_CHANGE_ATTR are completely unused.
- Inline the few remaining uses of NFS_ATTRTIMEO, and remove.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:23 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
4f48af4584 NFS: Simplify filehandle revalidation
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:20 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
9697d2342e NFS: Ensure that nfs_link() returns a hashed dentry
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:18 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
a12802cab8 NFS: Be strict about dentry revalidation when doing exclusive create
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:16 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
b050aa791f NFS: Don't zap the readdir caches upon error
If necessary, the caches will get zapped under normal revalidation.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:13 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
efbb06b7f9 NFS: Remove the redundant nfs_reval_fsid()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:11 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
d75340cc4d NFSv4: Fix nfs_atomic_open() to set the verifier on negative dentries too
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:06 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
216d5d0688 NFSv4: Use NFSv2/v3 rules for negative dentries in nfs_open_revalidate
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:03 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
0a5ebc1488 NFSv4: Don't revalidate the directory in nfs_atomic_lookup()
Why bother, since the call to nfs4_atomic_open() will do it for us.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:20:01 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
f2c77f4e62 NFS: Optimise nfs_lookup_revalidate()
We don't need to call nfs_revalidate_inode() on the directory if we already
know that the verifiers don't match.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:58 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
60ccd4ec41 NFS: Remove nfs_begin_data_update/nfs_end_data_update
The lower level routines in fs/nfs/proc.c, fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c and
fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c should already be dealing with the revalidation issues.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:53 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
a1643a92f6 NFS: NFS_CACHEINV() should not test for nfs_caches_unstable()
The fact that we're in the process of modifying the inode does not mean
that we should not invalidate the attribute and data caches. The defensive
thing is to always invalidate when we're confronted with inode
mtime/ctime or change_attribute updates that we do not immediately
recognise.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:48 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
3258b4fa55 NFS: Remove bogus nfs_mark_for_revalidate() in nfs_lookup
The parent of the newly materialised dentry has just been revalidated...

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:45 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
cf8ba45e05 NFS: don't cache the verifer across ->lookup() calls
If the ->lookup() call causes the directory verifier to change, then there
is still no need to use the old verifier, since our dentry has been
verified.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:42 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
446e534985 NFS: Fix a bug in nfs_open_revalidate()
We want to set the verifier when the call to nfs4_open_revalidate()
_succeeds_.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:30 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
d4d9cdcb47 NFS: Don't hash the negative dentry when optimising for an O_EXCL open
We don't want to leave an unverified hashed negative dentry if the
exclusive create fails to complete.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:27 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
5724ab3787 NFS: nfs_instantiate() should set the dentry verifier
That will also allow us to remove the calls in mknod and mkdir.
In addition it will ensure that symlinks set it correctly.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:25 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
fab728e156 NFS: Ensure nfs_instantiate() invalidates the parent dir on error
Also ensure that it drops the dentry in this case.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:22 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
4b841736bc NFS: Fix nfs_verify_change_attribute()
We don't care about whether or not some other process on our client is
changing the directory while we're in nfs_lookup_revalidate(), because the
dcache will take care of ensuring local atomicity.
We can therefore remove the test for nfs_caches_unstable().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:20 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
c481299839 NFS: Fix atime revalidation in readdir()
NFSv3 will correctly update atime on a readdir call, so there is no need to
set the NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME flag unless the call to nfs_refresh_inode()
fails.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:03 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
57fa76f2da NFS: Don't use readdirplus data if the page cache is invalid
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:19:00 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
6ecc5e8fca NFS: Fix dcache revalidation bugs
We don't need to force a dentry lookup just because we're making changes to
the directory.

Don't update nfsi->cache_change_attribute in nfs_end_data_update: that
overrides the NFSv3/v4 weak consistency checking that tells us our update
was the only one, and that tells us the dcache is still valid.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:18:49 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
af22f94ae0 NFSv4: Simplify _nfs4_do_access()
Currently, _nfs4_do_access() is just a copy of nfs_do_access() with added
conversion of the open flags into an access mask. This patch merges the
duplicate functionality.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:18:34 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
cd3758e37d NFS: Replace file->private_data with calls to nfs_file_open_context()
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:18:31 -04:00
Chuck Lever
8fb559f87f NFS: Eliminate nfs_refresh_verifier()
nfs_set_verifier() and nfs_refresh_verifier() do exactly the same thing, so
replace one with the other.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:18:26 -04:00
Chuck Lever
77a55a1fe8 NFS: Eliminate nfs_renew_times()
The nfs_renew_times() function plants the current time in jiffies in
dentry->d_time.  But a call to nfs_renew_times() is always followed by
another call that overwrites dentry->d_time.  Get rid of the
nfs_renew_times() calls.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:18:24 -04:00
Chuck Lever
92f6c17825 NFS: Don't call nfs_renew_times() in nfs_dentry_iput()
Negative dentries need to be reverified after an asynchronous unlink.

Quoth Trond:

"Unfortunately I don't think that we can avoid revalidating the
resulting negative dentry since the UNLINK call is asynchronous,
and so the new verifier on the directory will only be known a
posteriori."

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:18:22 -04:00
Fabio Olive Leite
c7e1596111 Re: [NFS] [PATCH] Attribute timeout handling and wrapping u32 jiffies
I would like to discuss the idea that the current checks for attribute
timeout using time_after are inadequate for 32bit architectures, since
time_after works correctly only when the two timestamps being compared
are within 2^31 jiffies of each other. The signed overflow caused by
comparing values more than 2^31 jiffies apart will flip the result,
causing incorrect assumptions of validity.

2^31 jiffies is a fairly large period of time (~25 days) when compared
to the lifetime of most kernel data structures, but for long lived NFS
mounts that can sit idle for months (think that for some reason autofs
cannot be used), it is easy to compare inode attribute timestamps with
very disparate or even bogus values (as in when jiffies have wrapped
many times, where the comparison doesn't even make sense).

Currently the code tests for attribute timeout by simply adding the
desired amount of jiffies to the stored timestamp and comparing that
with the current timestamp of obtained attribute data with time_after.
This is incorrect, as it returns true for the desired timeout period
and another full 2^31 range of jiffies.

In testing with artificial jumps (several small jumps, not one big
crank) of the jiffies I was able to reproduce a problem found in a
server with very long lived NFS mounts, where attributes would not be
refreshed even after touching files and directories in the server:

Initial uptime:
03:42:01 up 6 min, 0 users, load average: 0.01, 0.12, 0.07

NFS volume is mounted and time is advanced:
03:38:09 up 25 days, 2 min, 0 users, load average: 1.22, 1.05, 1.08

# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Dec 17 03:38 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Nov 22 00:36 /nfs/A/foo/bar

# touch /local/A/foo/bar

# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Dec 17 03:47 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Nov 22 00:36 /nfs/A/foo/bar

We can see the local mtime is updated, but the NFS mount still shows
the old value. The patch below makes it work:

Initial setup...
07:11:02 up 25 days, 1 min,  0 users,  load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.04

# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:11 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:11 /nfs/A/foo/bar

# touch /local/A/foo/bar

# ls -l /local/A/foo/bar /nfs/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:14 /local/A/foo/bar
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Jan 11 07:14 /nfs/A/foo/bar

Signed-off-by: Fabio Olive Leite <fleite@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:15:33 -04:00
Peter Staubach
4e769b934e 64 bit ino support for NFS client
Hi.

Attached is a patch to modify the NFS client code to support
64 bit ino's, as appropriate for the system and the NFS
protocol version.

The code basically just expand the NFS interfaces for routines
which handle ino's from using ino_t to u64 and then uses the
fileid in the nfs_inode instead of i_ino in the inode.  The
code paths that were updated are in the getattr method and
the readdir methods.

This should be no real change on 64 bit platforms.  Since
the ino_t is an unsigned long, it would already be 64 bits
wide.

    Thanx...

           ps

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-10-09 17:15:29 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
54af3bb543 NFS: Fix an Oops in encode_lookup()
It doesn't look as if the NFS file name limit is being initialised correctly
in the struct nfs_server. Make sure that we limit whatever is being set in
nfs_probe_fsinfo() and nfs_init_server().

Also ensure that readdirplus and nfs4_path_walk respect our file name
limits.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-28 15:36:42 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
e4eff1a622 SUNRPC: Clean up the sillyrename code
Fix a couple of bugs:
 - Don't rely on the parent dentry still being valid when the call completes.
   Fixes a race with shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree()

 - Don't remove the file if the filehandle has been labelled as stale.

Fix a couple of inefficiencies
 - Remove the global list of sillyrenamed files. Instead we can cache the
   sillyrename information in the dentry->d_fsdata
 - Move common code from unlink_setup/unlink_done into fs/nfs/unlink.c

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19 15:21:39 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
3062c532ad NFS: Use dentry->d_time to store the parent directory verifier.
This will free up the d_fsdata field for other use.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-19 15:21:39 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
a50f7951a3 NFS: Fix an Oops in the nfs_access_cache_shrinker()
The nfs_access_cache_shrinker may race with nfs_access_zap_cache().

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:25 -04:00
Jeff Layton
83d93f2229 NFS: Use GFP_HIGHUSER for page allocation in nfs_symlink()
nfs_symlink() allocates a GFP_KERNEL page for the pagecache. Most
pagecache pages are allocated using GFP_HIGHUSER, and there's no reason
not to do that in nfs_symlink() as well.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:25 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
a0356862bc NFS: Fix nfs_reval_fsid()
We don't need to revalidate the fsid on the root directory. It suffices to
revalidate it on the current directory.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:24 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
ad389da79f NFSv4: Ensure asynchronous open() calls always pin the mountpoint
A number of race conditions may currently ensue if the user presses ^C
and then unmounts the partition while an asynchronous open() is in
progress.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-07-10 23:40:24 -04:00
Alexey Dobriyan
e8edc6e03a Detach sched.h from mm.h
First thing mm.h does is including sched.h solely for can_do_mlock() inline
function which has "current" dereference inside. By dealing with can_do_mlock()
mm.h can be detached from sched.h which is good. See below, why.

This patch
a) removes unconditional inclusion of sched.h from mm.h
b) makes can_do_mlock() normal function in mm/mlock.c
c) exports can_do_mlock() to not break compilation
d) adds sched.h inclusions back to files that were getting it indirectly.
e) adds less bloated headers to some files (asm/signal.h, jiffies.h) that were
   getting them indirectly

Net result is:
a) mm.h users would get less code to open, read, preprocess, parse, ... if
   they don't need sched.h
b) sched.h stops being dependency for significant number of files:
   on x86_64 allmodconfig touching sched.h results in recompile of 4083 files,
   after patch it's only 3744 (-8.3%).

Cross-compile tested on

	all arm defconfigs, all mips defconfigs, all powerpc defconfigs,
	alpha alpha-up
	arm
	i386 i386-up i386-defconfig i386-allnoconfig
	ia64 ia64-up
	m68k
	mips
	parisc parisc-up
	powerpc powerpc-up
	s390 s390-up
	sparc sparc-up
	sparc64 sparc64-up
	um-x86_64
	x86_64 x86_64-up x86_64-defconfig x86_64-allnoconfig

as well as my two usual configs.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
Trond Myklebust
10afec9081 NFS: Fix some 'sparse' warnings...
- fs/nfs/dir.c:610:8: warning: symbol 'nfs_llseek_dir' was not declared.
   Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/dir.c:636:5: warning: symbol 'nfs_fsync_dir' was not declared.
   Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/write.c:925:19: warning: symbol 'req' shadows an earlier one
 - fs/nfs/write.c:61:6: warning: symbol 'nfs_commit_rcu_free' was not
   declared. Should it be static?
 - fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c:793:5: warning: symbol 'nfs4_recover_expired_lease'
   was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-05-14 19:33:46 -04:00
Jesper Juhl
7a13e93228 NFS: Kill the obsolete NFS_PARANOIA
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-05-09 17:58:01 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
e70c490810 NFS: Remove redundant check in nfs_check_verifier()
The check for nfs_attribute_timeout(dir) in nfs_check_verifier is
redundant: nfs_lookup_revalidate() will already call nfs_revalidate_inode()
on the parent dir when necessary.

The only case where this is not done is the case of a negative dentry. Fix
this case by moving up the revalidation code.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-05-09 17:57:59 -04:00
Trond Myklebust
e62c2bba1f NFS: Fix a jiffie wraparound issue
dentry verifiers are always set to the parent directory's
cache_change_attribute. There is no reason to be testing for anything other
than equality when we're trying to find out if the dentry has been checked
since the last time the directory was modified.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-05-09 17:57:58 -04:00
Nick Piggin
6fe6900e1e mm: make read_cache_page synchronous
Ensure pages are uptodate after returning from read_cache_page, which allows
us to cut out most of the filesystem-internal PageUptodate calls.

I didn't have a great look down the call chains, but this appears to fixes 7
possible use-before uptodate in hfs, 2 in hfsplus, 1 in jfs, a few in
ecryptfs, 1 in jffs2, and a possible cleared data overwritten with readpage in
block2mtd.  All depending on whether the filler is async and/or can return
with a !uptodate page.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07 12:12:51 -07:00
Neil Brown
83672d392f NFS: Fix directory caching problem - with test case and patch.
Try running this script in an NFS mounted directory (Client relatively
recent - 2.6.18 has the problem as does 2.6.20).

------------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
#
# This script will produce the following errormessage from tar:
#
#   tar: newdir/innerdir/innerfile: file changed as we read it

# create dirs
rm -rf nfstest
mkdir -p nfstest/dir/innerdir

# create files (should not be empty)
echo "Hello World!" >nfstest/dir/file
echo "Hello World!" >nfstest/dir/innerdir/innerfile

# problem only happens if we sleep before chmod
sleep 1

# change file modes
chmod -R a+r nfstest

# rename dir
mv nfstest/dir nfstest/newdir

# tar it
tar -cf nfstest/nfstest.tar -C nfstest newdir

# restore old dir name
mv nfstest/newdir nfstest/dir
--------------------------------------------------------

What happens:

The 'chmod -R' does a readdir_plus in each directory and the results
get cached in the page cache.  It then updates the ctime on each file
by one second.  When this happens, the post-op attributes are used to
update the ctime stored on the client to match the value in the kernel.

The 'mv' calls shrink_dcache_parent on the directory tree which
flushes all the dentries (so a new lookup will be required) but
doesn't flush the inodes or pagecache.

The 'tar' does a readdir on each directory, but (in the case of
'innerdir' at least) satisfies it from the pagecache and uses the
READDIRPLUS data to update all the inodes.  In the case of
'innerdir/innerfile', the ctime is out of date.

'tar' then calls 'lstat' on innerdir/innerfile getting an old ctime.
It then opens the file (triggering a GETATTR), reads the content, and
then calls fstat to see if anything has changed.  It finds that ctime
has changed and so complains.

The problem seems to be that the cache readdirplus info is kept around
for too long.

My patch below discards pagecache data for directories when
dentry_iput is called on them.  This effectively removes the symptom
which convinces me that I correctly understand the problem.  However
I'm not convinced that is a proper solution, as there could easily be
other races that trigger the same problem without being affected by
this 'fix'.

One possibility would be to require that readdirplus pagecache data be
only used *once* to instantiate an inode.  Somehow it should then be
invalidated so that if the dentry subsequently disappears, it will
cause a new request to the server to fill in the stat data.

Another possibility is to compare the cache_change_attribute on the
inode with something similar for the readdirplus info and reject the
info from readdirplus if it is too old.

I haven't tried to implement these and would value other opinions
before I do.

Thanks,
NeilBrown


Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2007-04-30 22:17:19 -07:00