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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] vfs: force reval on dentry of bind mounted files on FS_REVAL_DOT filesystems
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On Wed,  2 Dec 2009, Jeff Layton wrote:
> In the case of a bind mounted file, the path walking code will assume
> that the cached dentry that was bind mounted is valid. This is a problem
> problem for NFSv4 in a way that's similar to LAST_BIND symlinks.
>
> Fix this by revalidating the dentry if FS_FOLLOW_DOT is set and
> __follow_mount returns true.
>
> Note that in the non-open codepath, we cannot return an error to the
> lookup if the revalidation fails. Doing so will leave a bind mount in
> a state such that we can't unmount it. In that case we'll just have to
> settle for d_invalidating it (which should mostly turn out to be a
> d_drop in this case) and returning success.

The only worry I have is that this adds an extra branch in a very hot
codepath (do_lookup). An error can't be returned, as you note, and
for bind mounted directories d_invalidate() will not succeed: the
directory is busy, it's referenced by the mount. So basically the
only thing this does is working around the NFSv4 issue. But Trond has
a proper solution to that, and a temporary solution could be added to
do_filp_open() rather than burdening do_lookup() with it, no?

Thanks,
Miklos

>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
> ---
> fs/namei.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index 339789e..0d55b6f 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -851,7 +851,13 @@ static int do_lookup(struct nameidata *nd, struct qstr *name,
> done:
> path->mnt = mnt;
> path->dentry = dentry;
> - __follow_mount(path);
> +
> + /*
> + * cannot return the error returned by force_reval_path as that can
> + * make it impossible to unmount a bind mounted dentry if it's stale.
> + */
> + if (__follow_mount(path))
> + force_reval_path(path, nd);
> return 0;
>
> need_lookup:
> @@ -1840,6 +1846,9 @@ do_last:
> error = -ELOOP;
> if (flag & O_NOFOLLOW)
> goto exit_dput;
> + error = force_reval_path(&path, &nd);
> + if (error)
> + goto exit_dput;
> }
>
> error = -ENOENT;
> --
> 1.5.5.6
>
>


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