linux-kernel - [PATCH] cifs - check S

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2012 16:18:15 +0800
From:	Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] cifs - check S_AUTOMOUNT in revalidate

When revalidating a dentry, if the inode wasn't known to be a dfs
entry when the dentry was instantiated, such as when created via
->readdir(), the DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT flag needs to be set on the
dentry in ->d_revalidate().

The false return from cifs_d_revalidate(), due to the inode now
being marked with the S_AUTOMOUNT flag, might not invalidate the
dentry if there is a concurrent unlazy path walk. This is because
the dentry reference count will be at least 2 in this case causing
d_invalidate() to return EBUSY. So the asumption that the dentry
will be discarded then correctly instantiated via ->lookup() might
not hold.

Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc: Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
Cc: linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org
---

 fs/cifs/dir.c |   17 ++++++++++++-----
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
index d172c8e..ec4e9a2 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -668,12 +668,19 @@ cifs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *direntry, struct nameidata *nd)
 			return 0;
 		else {
 			/*
-			 * Forcibly invalidate automounting directory inodes
-			 * (remote DFS directories) so to have them
-			 * instantiated again for automount
+			 * If the inode wasn't known to be a dfs entry when
+			 * the dentry was instantiated, such as when created
+			 * via ->readdir(), it needs to be set now since the
+			 * attributes will have been updated by
+			 * cifs_revalidate_dentry().
 			 */
-			if (IS_AUTOMOUNT(direntry->d_inode))
-				return 0;
+			if (IS_AUTOMOUNT(direntry->d_inode) &&
+			   !(direntry->d_flags & DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT)) {
+				spin_lock(&direntry->d_lock);
+				direntry->d_flags |= DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT;
+				spin_unlock(&direntry->d_lock);
+			}
+
 			return 1;
 		}
 	}

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