From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The fact that the lookup revalidation failed, does not mean that the inode contents have changed. Fixes: 5ceb9d7fdaaf ("NFS: Refactor nfs_lookup_revalidate()") Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 20 ++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index 6350873cb8bd..deb6ad0622ed 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -1444,18 +1444,14 @@ nfs_lookup_revalidate_done(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, __func__, dentry); return 1; case 0: - if (inode && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) { - /* Purge readdir caches. */ - nfs_zap_caches(inode); - /* - * We can't d_drop the root of a disconnected tree: - * its d_hash is on the s_anon list and d_drop() would hide - * it from shrink_dcache_for_unmount(), leading to busy - * inodes on unmount and further oopses. - */ - if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) - return 1; - } + /* + * We can't d_drop the root of a disconnected tree: + * its d_hash is on the s_anon list and d_drop() would hide + * it from shrink_dcache_for_unmount(), leading to busy + * inodes on unmount and further oopses. + */ + if (inode && IS_ROOT(dentry)) + return 1; dfprintk(LOOKUPCACHE, "NFS: %s(%pd2) is invalid\n", __func__, dentry); return 0; -- 2.29.2