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Commit b0c6108e authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro
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nfs_instantiate(): prevent multiple aliases for directory inode



Since NFS allows open-by-fhandle, we have to cope with the possibility
of mkdir vs. open-by-guessed-handle races.  A local filesystem could
decide what the inumber of the new object will be and insert a locked
inode with that inumber into icache _before_ the on-disk data structures
begin to look good and unlock it only once it has a dentry alias, so
that open-by-handle coming first would quietly fail and mkdir coming
first would have open-by-handle grab its dentry.

For NFS it's a non-starter - the icache key is server-supplied fhandle
and we do not get that until the object has been fully created on server.
We really have to deal with the possibility that open-by-handle gets
the in-core inode and attaches a dentry to it before mkdir does.

Solution: let nfs_mkdir() use d_splice_alias() to catch those.  We can
	* get an error.  Just return it to our caller.
	* get NULL - no preexisting dentry aliases, we'd just done what
d_add() would've done.  Success.
	* get a reference to preexisting alias.  In that case the alias
had been moved in place of nfs_mkdir() argument (and hashed there), while
nfs_mkdir() argument is left unhashed negative.  Which is just fine for
->mkdir() callers, all we need is to release the reference we'd got from
d_splice_alias() and report success.

Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
parent 877f919e
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@@ -1641,6 +1641,7 @@ int nfs_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nfs_fh *fhandle,
	struct dentry *parent = dget_parent(dentry);
	struct inode *dir = d_inode(parent);
	struct inode *inode;
	struct dentry *d;
	int error = -EACCES;

	d_drop(dentry);
@@ -1662,10 +1663,12 @@ int nfs_instantiate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nfs_fh *fhandle,
			goto out_error;
	}
	inode = nfs_fhget(dentry->d_sb, fhandle, fattr, label);
	error = PTR_ERR(inode);
	if (IS_ERR(inode))
	d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry);
	if (IS_ERR(d)) {
		error = PTR_ERR(d);
		goto out_error;
	d_add(dentry, inode);
	}
	dput(d);
out:
	dput(parent);
	return 0;