On asynchronous base filesystems like NFS, eCryptFS leaves inodes for deleted files in the cache until unmounting. Change call in ecryptfs_do_unlink() from set_nlink() to drop_nlink() in order to reliably evict inodes from the cache even on top of NFS. Signed-off-by: Dan Robertson <daniel.robertson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Mitchell <jeffrey.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c index e23752d..f7594b6 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_do_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, goto out_unlock; } fsstack_copy_attr_times(dir, lower_dir_inode); - set_nlink(inode, ecryptfs_inode_to_lower(inode)->i_nlink); + drop_nlink(inode); inode->i_ctime = dir->i_ctime; out_unlock: dput(lower_dentry); -- 2.7.4
