From: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> When unlinking a file the kclient will send a unlink request to MDS by holding the dentry reference, and then the MDS will return 2 replies, which are unsafe reply and a deferred safe reply. After the unsafe reply received the kernel will return and succeed the unlink request to user space apps. Only when the safe reply received the dentry's reference will be released. Or the dentry will only be unhashed from dcache. But when the open_by_handle_at() begins to open the unlinked files it will succeed. The inode->i_count couldn't be used to check whether the inode is opened or not. URL: https://tracker.ceph.com/issues/56524 Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@xxxxxxxxxx> --- V3: - The inode->i_count couldn't be correctly indicate that whether the file is opened or not. V2: - If the dentry was released and inode is evicted such as by dropping the caches, it will allocate a new dentry, which is also unhashed. fs/ceph/export.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ceph/export.c b/fs/ceph/export.c index 0ebf2bd93055..8559990a59a5 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/export.c +++ b/fs/ceph/export.c @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ struct inode *ceph_lookup_inode(struct super_block *sb, u64 ino) static struct dentry *__fh_to_dentry(struct super_block *sb, u64 ino) { struct inode *inode = __lookup_inode(sb, ino); + struct ceph_inode_info *ci = ceph_inode(inode); int err; if (IS_ERR(inode)) @@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ static struct dentry *__fh_to_dentry(struct super_block *sb, u64 ino) return ERR_PTR(err); } /* -ESTALE if inode as been unlinked and no file is open */ - if ((inode->i_nlink == 0) && (atomic_read(&inode->i_count) == 1)) { + if ((inode->i_nlink == 0) && !__ceph_is_file_opened(ci)) { iput(inode); return ERR_PTR(-ESTALE); } -- 2.36.0.rc1