... in other news:
filp_open() can't return a struct file with NULL dentry
filp_open() can't return a struct file negative dentry
filp_close() of something that never had been in any descriptor
tables is pointless - fput() is all you need
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The following set of operations on a NFS client and server will cause
server# mkdir a
client# cd a
server# mv a a.bak
client# sleep 30 # (or whatever the dir attrcache timeout is)
client# stat .
stat: cannot stat `.': Stale NFS file handle
Obviously, we should not be getting an ESTALE error back there since the
inode still exists on the server. The problem is that the lookup code
will call d_revalidate on the dentry that "." refers to, because NFS has
FS_REVAL_DOT set.
nfs_lookup_revalidate will see that the parent directory has changed and
will try to reverify the dentry by redoing a LOOKUP. That of course
fails, so the lookup code returns ESTALE.
The problem here is that d_revalidate is really a bad fit for this case.
What we really want to know at this point is whether the inode is still
good or not, but we don't really care what name it goes by or whether
the dcache is still valid.
Add a new d_op->d_weak_revalidate operation and have complete_walk call
that instead of d_revalidate. The intent there is to allow for a
"weaker" d_revalidate that just checks to see whether the inode is still
good. This is also gives us an opportunity to kill off the FS_REVAL_DOT
special casing.
[AV: changed method name, added note in porting, fixed confusion re
having it possibly called from RCU mode (it won't be)]
Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We're currently ignoring errors from vfs_getattr.
The correct thing to do is to do the stat in the main service procedure
not in the response encoding.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
If r_aborted is true, we do not hold the dir i_mutex, and cannot touch
the dcache. However, we still need to update the inodes with the state
returned by the MDS.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* calling conventions change - ERR_PTR() is returned on ->d_hash() errors;
NULL is just for dcache miss now.
* exported, open-coded instances in ncpfs and cifs converted.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
file argument is a struct file being passed to ->open() or
already opened; none of the checks in lirc_get_pdata()
can fail.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Note that provided ->d_dname() reproduces what we used to get for
those guys in e.g. /proc/self/maps; it might be a good idea to change
that to something less ugly, but for now let's keep the existing
user-visible behaviour
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Right now it's safe only during initial mount *and* functions are asking
to be abused for dynamic adding of objects.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro
Namjae Jeon
Jeff Layton
J. Bruce Fields
Sage Weil