If there are some mount points(not exported for nfs) under pseudo root, after client's operation of those entry under the root, anyone *can't* unmount those mount points until export cache expired. # cat /etc/exports /nfs/xfs *(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) /nfs/pnfs *(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash) # ll /nfs/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 84 Apr 21 22:27 pnfs drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 84 Apr 21 22:27 test drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Apr 20 22:01 xfs # mount /dev/sde /nfs/test # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on ...... /dev/sdd 1038336 32944 1005392 4% /nfs/pnfs /dev/sdc 10475520 32928 10442592 1% /nfs/xfs /dev/sde 999320 1284 929224 1% /nfs/test # mount -t nfs 127.0.0.1:/nfs/ /mnt # ll /mnt/*/ /mnt/pnfs/: total 0 -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Apr 21 22:23 attr drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Apr 21 22:19 tmp /mnt/xfs/: total 0 # umount /nfs/test/ umount: /nfs/test/: target is busy (In some cases useful info about processes that use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1).) It's caused by exports cache of nfsd holds the reference of the path (here is /nfs/test/), so, it can't be umounted. I don't think that's user expect, they want umount /nfs/test/. Bruce think user can also umount /nfs/pnfs/ and /nfs/xfs. This patch site lets nfsd exports pinning to vfsmount, not using mntget, so user can umount any exports mountpoint now. v3, 1. New helpers path_get_pin/path_put_unpin for path pin. 2. Use kzalloc for allocating memory. v4, Thanks for Al Viro's commets for the logic of fs_pin. 1. add a completion for pin_kill waiting the reference is decreased to zero. 2. add a work_struct for pin_kill decreases the reference indirectly. 3. free svc_export/svc_expkey in pin_kill, not svc_export_put/svc_expkey_put. 4. svc_export_put/svc_expkey_put go though pin_kill logic. v5, let killing fs_pin under a reference of vfsmnt. v6, 1. revert the change of v5 2. new helper legitimize_mntget() for nfsd exports/expkey cache get vfsmount from fs_pin 3. cleanup some codes of sunrpc's cache 4. switch using list_head instead of single list for cache_head in cache_detail 5. new functions validate/invalidate for processing of reference increase/decrease change (nfsd exports/expkey using grab the reference of mnt) 6. delete cache_head directly from cache_detail in pin_kill v7, implement self reference increase and decrease for nfsd exports/expkey When reference of cahce_head increase(>1), grab a reference of mnt once. and reference decrease to 1 (==1), drop the reference of mnt. v8, Use hash_list for sunrpc cachen and a new method for nfsd's pin, 1. There are only one outlet from each cache, exp_find_key() for expkey, exp_get_by_name() for export. 2. Any fsid to export or filehandle to export will call the function. 3. exp_get()/exp_put() increase/decrease the reference of export. Call legitimize_mntget() in the only outlet function exp_find_key()/ exp_get_by_name(), if fail return STALE, otherwise, any valid expkey/export from the cache is validated (Have get the reference of vfsmnt). Add mntget() in exp_get() and mntput() in exp_put(), because the export passed to exp_get/exp_put are returned from exp_find_key/exp_get_by_name. For expkey cache, 1. At first, a fsid is passed to exp_find_key, and lookup a cache in svc_expkey_lookup, if success, ekey->ek_path is pined to mount. 2. Then call legitimize_mntget getting a reference of vfsmnt before return from exp_find_key. 3. Any calling exp_find_key with valid cache must put the vfsmnt. for export cache, 1. At first, a path (returned from exp_find_key) with validate vfsmnt is passed to exp_get_by_name, if success, exp->ex_path is pined to mount. 2. Then call legitimize_mntget getting a reference of vfsmnt before return from exp_get_by_name. 3. Any calling exp_get_by_name with valid cache must put the vfsmnt by exp_put(); 4. Any using the exp returned from exp_get_by_name must call exp_get(), will increase the reference of vfsmnt. So that, a. After getting the reference in 2, any umount of filesystem will get -EBUSY. b. After put all reference after 4, or before get the reference in 2, any umount of filesystem will call pin_kill, and delete the cache directly, also unpin the vfsmount. c. Between 1 and 2, have get the reference of exp/key cache, with invalidate vfsmnt. Umount of filesystem only wait exp_find_key/exp_get_by_name put the reference of cache when legitimize_mntget fail. v9, thanks for NeilBrown's comments and update 1. Drop the initialing of p->done in the old version, 2. Remove three patches of cleanup sunrpc cache that have applied by Bruce, 3. Update using seqlock in legitimize_mntget instead read_seqlock_excl 4. Update some bugs commented from Neil, 5. New logical of pin_kill from Neil, "allow pin_remove() to be called other than from ->kill()" Besides the logical of pin_kill (only the part of waiting the last reference), others are same as v8. Kinglong Mee (5): fs_pin: Export functions for specific filesystem path: New helpers path_get_pin/path_put_unpin for path pin fs: New helper legitimize_mntget() for getting a legitimize mnt sunrpc: New helper cache_delete_entry for deleting cache_head directly nfsd: Allows user un-mounting filesystem where nfsd exports base on NeilBrown (1): fs-pin: allow pin_remove() to be called other than from ->kill() fs/fs_pin.c | 22 +++++++++- fs/namei.c | 26 ++++++++++++ fs/namespace.c | 30 ++++++++++++++ fs/nfsd/export.c | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- fs/nfsd/export.h | 14 ++++++- include/linux/fs_pin.h | 2 +- include/linux/mount.h | 1 + include/linux/path.h | 4 ++ include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h | 1 + net/sunrpc/cache.c | 20 +++++++++ 10 files changed, 194 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) -- 2.4.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html