Re: 2.6.24-rc3-git4 NFS crossmnt regression

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On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:51:58 -0500
Trond Myklebust <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2007-12-07 at 14:39 -0500, Shane wrote:
> > On Dec 7, 2007 2:16 PM, Shane <[email protected]> wrote:
> > ...
> > > Confirmed working in rc4-git5.  I'll deploy this kernel in a few more
> > > spots and check for other regressions.
> > 
> > Hmm, I installed a new kernel built from the same sources on the NFS
> > server. And now I don't see anything at all in the crossmnt dirs.
> > 
> > ls /dirA/dirB/dirC  --> zero output (empty dir)
> > 
> > Are there any other pending fixes?
> > 
> > Shane
> 
> You've probably fallen afoul of 
> 
>    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9504
> 

Yeah.

I have a tentative fix below but I can't seem to get Eric and Denis to get
a suitable fix nailed down.  It's urgent!



From: "Denis V. Lunev" <[email protected]>

/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc dentry disappeared during d_revalidate. 
d_revalidate only dentries from shadowed one and below. 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9504

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
Cc: Marcus Better <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <[email protected]>
Cc: Marcus Better <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
---

 fs/proc/generic.c |   14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/proc/generic.c~lost-content-of-proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc fs/proc/generic.c
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c~lost-content-of-proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc
+++ a/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -380,12 +380,17 @@ static int proc_revalidate_dentry(struct
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static struct dentry_operations proc_dentry_operations =
+static struct dentry_operations proc_dentry_shadow_operations =
 {
 	.d_delete	= proc_delete_dentry,
 	.d_revalidate	= proc_revalidate_dentry,
 };
 
+static struct dentry_operations proc_dentry_operations =
+{
+	.d_delete	= proc_delete_dentry,
+};
+
 /*
  * Don't create negative dentries here, return -ENOENT by hand
  * instead.
@@ -394,6 +399,7 @@ struct dentry *proc_lookup(struct inode 
 {
 	struct inode *inode = NULL;
 	struct proc_dir_entry * de;
+	int use_shadow = 0;
 	int error = -ENOENT;
 
 	lock_kernel();
@@ -406,8 +412,10 @@ struct dentry *proc_lookup(struct inode 
 			if (!memcmp(dentry->d_name.name, de->name, de->namelen)) {
 				unsigned int ino;
 
-				if (de->shadow_proc)
+				if (de->shadow_proc) {
 					de = de->shadow_proc(current, de);
+					use_shadow = 1;
+				}
 				ino = de->low_ino;
 				de_get(de);
 				spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
@@ -423,6 +431,8 @@ struct dentry *proc_lookup(struct inode 
 
 	if (inode) {
 		dentry->d_op = &proc_dentry_operations;
+		dentry->d_op = use_shadow ?
+			&proc_dentry_shadow_operations : dentry->d_parent->d_op;
 		d_add(dentry, inode);
 		return NULL;
 	}
_

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