Re: open_downgrade use

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On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Trond Myklebust <trondmy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> You are misreading what I wrote. Your test should indeed give rise to an
> OPEN_DOWNGRADE (unless there is a delegation involved). The code that was
> misbehaving and that was fixed by the patch was triggering an OPEN_DOWNGRADE
> from a stateid that had only been opened for RW.

I see. With this patch, the upstream code no longer sends an
OPEN_DOWNGRADE. I will investigate why then as it seems like a bug.

>
>
> On 6/1/16, 16:31, "linux-nfs-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Olga
> Kornievskaia" <linux-nfs-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of aglo@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>>I'm failing to think of what can trigger an open_downgrade?
>>I thought the following example should trigger an open downgrade:
>>
>>fd0 = open(foo, RDRW) -- should be open on the wire for "both"
>>fd1 = open(foo, RDONLY) -- should be open on the wire for "read"
>>close(fd0) -- should trigger an open_downgrade
>>read(fd1)
>>close(fd1)
>>
>>However this commit says that it's not allowed by the spec.
>>
>>commit cd9288ffaea4359d5cfe2b8d264911506aed26a4
>>Author: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Date: Thu Sep 18 11:51:32 2014 -0400
>>
>> NFSv4: Fix another bug in the close/open_downgrade code
>>
>> James Drew reports another bug whereby the NFS client is now sending
>> an OPEN_DOWNGRADE in a situation where it should really have sent a
>> CLOSE: the client is opening the file for O_RDWR, but then trying to
>> do a downgrade to O_RDONLY, which is not allowed by the NFSv4 spec.
>>
>> Reported-by: James Drews <drews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/541AD7E5.8020409@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Fixes: aee7af356e15 (NFSv4: Fix problems with close in the presence...)
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 2.6.33+
>> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>If RDWR to RDONLY isn't allowed then why do we have OPEN_DOWNGRADE at all?
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