linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 18/95] autofs: revert "autofs: take more care to not update last

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Date:   Mon,  4 Dec 2017 16:59:42 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>,
        NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        Colin Walters <walters@...hat.com>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Ondrej Holy <oholy@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 18/95] autofs: revert "autofs: take more care to not update last_used on path walk"

4.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>

commit 43694d4bf843ddd34519e8e9de983deefeada699 upstream.

While commit 092a53452bb7 ("autofs: take more care to not update
last_used on path walk") helped (partially) resolve a problem where
automounts were not expiring due to aggressive accesses from user space
it has a side effect for very large environments.

This change helps with the expire problem by making the expire more
aggressive but, for very large environments, that means more mount
requests from clients.  When there are a lot of clients that can mean
fairly significant server load increases.

It turns out I put the last_used in this position to solve this very
problem and failed to update my own thinking of the autofs expire
policy.  So the patch being reverted introduces a regression which
should be fixed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151174729420.6162.1832622523537052460.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Fixes: 092a53452b ("autofs: take more care to not update last_used on path walk")
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@...hat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: Ondrej Holy <oholy@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/autofs4/root.c |   17 ++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/autofs4/root.c
+++ b/fs/autofs4/root.c
@@ -281,8 +281,8 @@ static int autofs4_mount_wait(const stru
 		pr_debug("waiting for mount name=%pd\n", path->dentry);
 		status = autofs4_wait(sbi, path, NFY_MOUNT);
 		pr_debug("mount wait done status=%d\n", status);
-		ino->last_used = jiffies;
 	}
+	ino->last_used = jiffies;
 	return status;
 }
 
@@ -321,21 +321,16 @@ static struct dentry *autofs4_mountpoint
 	 */
 	if (autofs_type_indirect(sbi->type) && d_unhashed(dentry)) {
 		struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent;
+		struct autofs_info *ino;
 		struct dentry *new;
 
 		new = d_lookup(parent, &dentry->d_name);
 		if (!new)
 			return NULL;
-		if (new == dentry)
-			dput(new);
-		else {
-			struct autofs_info *ino;
-
-			ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(new);
-			ino->last_used = jiffies;
-			dput(path->dentry);
-			path->dentry = new;
-		}
+		ino = autofs4_dentry_ino(new);
+		ino->last_used = jiffies;
+		dput(path->dentry);
+		path->dentry = new;
 	}
 	return path->dentry;
 }