Re: [PATCH] Revert "__d_unalias() should refuse to move mountpoints"

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Hey,

Op 29-11-12 21:06, Al Viro schreef:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 04:29:58AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>>> Could you try the following patch?  This should report what directories
>>>> cannot be renamed because one of them is a mount point and it gives some
>>>> real insight into what is going on.
>>> ls /
>>> __d_unalias: /dev -> /dev
>>> __d_unalias: /proc -> /proc
>>> __d_unalias: /sys -> /sys
>> Ok.  That is what I thought was going on.  For some reason nfs is
>> attempting to recreate an existing dentry.
>>
>> Does this fix the nfs problem for you?
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
>> index 8086636..6390f0f 100644
>> --- a/fs/dcache.c
>> +++ b/fs/dcache.c
>> @@ -2404,6 +2404,9 @@ out_unalias:
>>  	if (likely(!d_mountpoint(alias))) {
>>  		__d_move(alias, dentry);
>>  		ret = alias;
>> +	} else if ((alias->d_parent == dentry->d_parent) &&
>> +		   !dentry_cmp(alias, dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.len))
>> +		ret = alias;
>>  	}
> The interesting question is why the hell had it decided that preexisting
> dentry was not good enough for it?  Note that we have arrived to nfs_lookup()
> after we'd decided *not* to use the damn alias.  The trace posted upthread
> went __lookup_hash() -> lookup_real().  It means that lookup_dcache()
> has not produced this one.  And no, even if ->d_revalidate() decided it
> was no good, the logics in d_invalidate() would've said "busy" and we'd
> gone with that dentry anyway.  So it means that d_lookup() has not
> found it at all.
>
> IOW, something out there is blindly unhashing mountpoint dentries; that's
> where the real root of the problem seems to be.  Could you slap
> WARN_ON(d_mountpoint(dentry)) in __d_drop() and see what it catches?
>
Sorry for replying so late, I thought I wasn't hitting the bug any more, I was wrong..

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WARNING: at fs/dcache.c:452 d_drop+0x58/0x60()
Hardware name: Aspire M3985
Modules linked in: snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq kvm_intel kvm snd_timer snd_seq_device radeon snd usb_storage parport_pc ttm soundcore drm_kms_helper snd_page_alloc ppdev drm parport mei agpgart netconsole configfs nfsd
Pid: 1497, comm: ls Not tainted 3.7.0-rc4-patser+ #517
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8104cd8f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
 [<ffffffff8104cdea>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
 [<ffffffff81187be8>] d_drop+0x58/0x60
 [<ffffffff81256881>] nfs_readdir_page_filler+0x271/0x460
 [<ffffffff81257e59>] nfs_readdir_xdr_to_array+0x1f9/0x2e0
 [<ffffffff81257f66>] nfs_readdir_filler+0x26/0x90
 [<ffffffff81119e15>] ? add_to_page_cache_lru+0x35/0x50
 [<ffffffff8111a622>] do_read_cache_page+0x82/0x1a0
 [<ffffffff81257f40>] ? nfs_readdir_xdr_to_array+0x2e0/0x2e0
 [<ffffffff81183d40>] ? sys_ioctl+0xb0/0xb0
 [<ffffffff8111a78c>] read_cache_page_async+0x1c/0x20
 [<ffffffff8111a79e>] read_cache_page+0xe/0x20
 [<ffffffff81258327>] nfs_readdir+0x137/0x510
 [<ffffffff811840e1>] ? vfs_readdir+0x81/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8126dfe0>] ? nfs3_xdr_dec_getattr3res+0x80/0x80
 [<ffffffff81183d40>] ? sys_ioctl+0xb0/0xb0
 [<ffffffff81184118>] vfs_readdir+0xb8/0xf0
 [<ffffffff8118426e>] sys_getdents+0x8e/0x120
 [<ffffffff81753394>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
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