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authorEryu Guan <eguan@linux.alibaba.com>2018-04-05 16:19:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-04-05 21:36:22 -0700
commitac89b2ef9b55924bcf922251f043ba73a32d05bb (patch)
tree7178ec47b68dcf9b4be71228b952cc0e8005789d /Documentation/block/stat.txt
parenta85222435bd055b2d2cedc515d810a5ea6c05432 (diff)
9p: don't maintain dir i_nlink if the exported fs doesn't either
If the exported filesystem dir on 9p server doesn't maintain accurate i_nlink count, e.g. always reports i_nlink as 1, then 9p should not maintain nlink count either, otherwise drop_link would report warning with i_nlink being zero. For example: - overlayfs sets nlink to 1 for merged dir - ext4 (with dir_nlink feature enabled) sets nlink to 1 if a dir has more than EXT4_LINK_MAX (65000) links. In this case, everytime a stat(2) call (getattr) on such exported dirs on 9p client side, the i_nlink gets reset to 1, then operations like rmdir(2), unlink(2) and rename(2) would cause the dir nlink to go to zero (then negative), which results in warnings in drop_nlink() and/or inc_nlink() calls. This can be reproduced easily as the following steps: - export a merged overlayfs dir via qemu virtfs to guest - mount the exported virtfs in guest - create two sub-directories in the root dir of the mounted 9pfs - stat the root dir of 9pfs, this resets nlink to 1 - remove all subdirs, the second unlink/rmdir would trigger warning ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1284 at fs/inode.c:282 drop_nlink+0x3e/0x50 ... Call Trace: dump_stack+0x63/0x81 __warn+0xcb/0xf0 warn_slowpath_null+0x1d/0x20 drop_nlink+0x3e/0x50 v9fs_remove+0xaa/0x130 [9p] v9fs_vfs_rmdir+0x13/0x20 [9p] vfs_rmdir+0xb7/0x130 do_rmdir+0x1b8/0x230 SyS_unlinkat+0x22/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x67/0x180 ---[ end trace 43758d8ba91e603b ]--- Fix it by leaving i_nlink to be 1 and don't drop nlink if a directory has nlink <= 2, which indicates that the underlying exported fs doesn't maintain nlink count accurately. This follows what ext4 does in ext4_dec_count(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180312053829.4367-1-eguan@linux.alibaba.com Signed-off-by: Eryu Guan <eguan@linux.alibaba.com> Reviewed-by: Yiwen Jiang <jiangyiwen@huawei.com> Tested-by: Roman Kapl <code@rkapl.cz> Cc: Caspar Zhang <caspar@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov> Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: <v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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