On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 11:27:38 +0900 > Nakajima Akira <nakajima.akira@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> When refer file "directly" (e.g. ls -li <filename>), >> if file is same name, old inode cache is used. >> This causes that client shows wrong(old) inode number. >> So this patch is that if uniqueid is different, return error. >> >> ## But this patch is applicable to when Server is UNIX. >> ## When Server is Windows, we need another new patch. >> >> >> Reproducible sample : >> 1. create file 'a' at cifs client. >> 2. rm 'a' and touch 'b a' at server. >> 3. ls -li 'a' at client, then client shows wrong(old) inode number. >> >> Bug link: >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90021 >> >> >> >> Signed-off-by: Nakajima Akira <nakajima.akira@xxxxxxxxxxxx> >> diff -uprN -X linux-3.18-vanilla/Documentation/dontdiff linux-3.18-vanilla/fs/cifs/inode.c linux-3.18/fs/cifs/inode.c >> --- linux-3.18-vanilla/fs/cifs/inode.c 2014-12-08 07:21:05.000000000 +0900 >> +++ linux-3.18/fs/cifs/inode.c 2014-12-19 11:07:59.127000000 +0900 >> @@ -402,9 +402,18 @@ int cifs_get_inode_info_unix(struct inod >> rc = -ENOMEM; >> } else { >> /* we already have inode, update it */ >> + >> + /* if uniqueid is different, return error */ >> + if (unlikely(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_SERVER_INUM && >> + CIFS_I(*pinode)->uniqueid != fattr.cf_uniqueid)) { >> + rc = -ENOENT; >> + goto cgiiu_exit; >> + } >> + >> cifs_fattr_to_inode(*pinode, &fattr); >> } >> >> +cgiiu_exit: >> return rc; >> } >> > > Returning ENOENT here seems like the wrong error to me. That path does > exist, it just no longer refers to the same file as before. > > Maybe ESTALE would be better as it would allow the VFS layer > to revalidate the dcache and invalidate the old dentry? > > -- > Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> Similar to what Jeff mentioned, isn't the nfs_relavidate_inode path roughly equivalent to what we want here (where nfs.ko returns ESTALE on various cases where we detect an inode that doesn't match what we expect)? -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html