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NFS unlink() (and rename over existing target) must determine if the
file is open, and must perform a "silly rename" instead of an unlink (or
before rename) if it is. Otherwise the client might hold a file open
which has been removed on the server.
Consequently if it determines that the file isn't open, it must block
any subsequent opens until the unlink/rename has been completed on the
server.
This is currently achieved by unhashing the dentry. This forces any
open attempt to the slow-path for lookup which will block on i_rwsem on
the directory until the unlink/rename completes. A future patch will
change the VFS to only get a shared lock on i_rwsem for unlink, so this
will no longer work.
Instead we introduce an explicit interlock. A special value is stored
in dentry->d_fsdata while the unlink/rename is running and
->d_revalidate blocks while that value is present. When ->d_revalidate
unblocks, the dentry will be invalid. This closes the race
without requiring exclusion on i_rwsem.
d_fsdata is already used in two different ways.
1/ an IS_ROOT directory dentry might have a "devname" stored in
d_fsdata. Such a dentry doesn't have a name and so cannot be the
target of unlink or rename. For safety we check if an old devname
is still stored, and remove it if it is.
2/ a dentry with DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED set will have a 'struct
nfs_unlinkdata' stored in d_fsdata. While this is set maydelete()
will fail, so an unlink or rename will never proceed on such
a dentry.
Neither of these can be in effect when a dentry is the target of unlink
or rename. So we can expect d_fsdata to be NULL, and store a special
value ((void*)1) which is given the name NFS_FSDATA_BLOCKED to indicate
that any lookup will be blocked.
The d_count() is incremented under d_lock() when a lookup finds the
dentry, so we check d_count() is low, and set NFS_FSDATA_BLOCKED under
the same lock to avoid any races.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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