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    nfsd: don't break lease while servicing a COMMIT · 91885258
    Jeff Layton authored
    This is the second attempt to fix the problem whereby a COMMIT call
    causes a lease break and triggers a possible deadlock.
    
    The problem is that nfsd attempts to break a lease on a COMMIT call.
    This triggers a delegation recall if the lease is held for a delegation.
    If the client is the one holding the delegation and it's the same one on
    which it's issuing the COMMIT, then it can't return that delegation
    until the COMMIT is complete. But, nfsd won't complete the COMMIT until
    the delegation is returned. The client and server are essentially
    deadlocked until the state is marked bad (due to the client not
    responding on the callback channel).
    
    The first patch attempted to deal with this by eliminating the open of
    the file altogether and simply had nfsd_commit pass a NULL file pointer
    to the vfs_fsync_range. That would conflict with some work in progress
    by Christoph Hellwig to clean up the fsync interface, so this patch
    takes a different approach.
    
    This declares a new NFSD_MAY_NOT_BREAK_LEASE access flag that indicates
    to nfsd_open that it should not break any leases when opening the file,
    and has nfsd_commit set that flag on the nfsd_open call.
    
    For now, this patch leaves nfsd_commit opening the file with write
    access since I'm not clear on what sort of access would be more
    appropriate.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
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