nfsd: allow admin-revoked NFSv4.0 state to be freed.
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: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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