NFS: prepare for RCU-walk support but pushing tests later in code.
nfs_lookup_revalidate, nfs4_lookup_revalidate, and nfs_permission all need to understand and handle RCU-walk for NFS to gain the benefits of RCU-walk for cached information. Currently these functions all immediately return -ECHILD if the relevant flag (LOOKUP_RCU or MAY_NOT_BLOCK) is set. This patch pushes those tests later in the code so that we only abort immediately before we enter rcu-unsafe code. As subsequent patches make that rcu-unsafe code rcu-safe, several of these new tests will disappear. With this patch there are several paths through the code which will no longer return -ECHILD during an RCU-walk. However these are mostly error paths or other uninteresting cases. A noteworthy change in nfs_lookup_revalidate is that we don't take (or put) the reference to ->d_parent when LOOKUP_RCU is set. Rather we rcu_dereference ->d_parent, and check that ->d_inode is not NULL. We also check that ->d_parent hasn't changed after all the tests. In nfs4_lookup_revalidate we simply avoid testing LOOKUP_RCU on the path that only calls nfs_lookup_revalidate() as that function already performs the required test. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
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