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    nfsd: allow admin-revoked NFSv4.0 state to be freed. · d688d858
    NeilBrown authored
    For NFSv4.1 and later the client easily discovers if there is any
    admin-revoked state and will then find and explicitly free it.
    
    For NFSv4.0 there is no such mechanism.  The client can only find that
    state is admin-revoked if it tries to use that state, and there is no
    way for it to explicitly free the state.  So the server must hold on to
    the stateid (at least) for an indefinite amount of time.  A
    RELEASE_LOCKOWNER request might justify forgetting some of these
    stateids, as would the whole clients lease lapsing, but these are not
    reliable.
    
    This patch takes two approaches.
    
    Whenever a client uses an revoked stateid, that stateid is then
    discarded and will not be recognised again.  This might confuse a client
    which expect to get NFS4ERR_ADMIN_REVOKED consistently once it get it at
    all, but should mostly work.  Hopefully one error will lead to other
    resources being closed (e.g.  process exits), which will result in more
    stateid being freed when a CLOSE attempt gets NFS4ERR_ADMIN_REVOKED.
    
    Also, any admin-revoked stateids that have been that way for more than
    one lease time are periodically revoke.
    
    No actual freeing of state happens in this patch.  That will come in
    future patches which handle the different sorts of revoked state.
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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