If a filesystem is exported to a client with NFSv4 and that client holds
a file open, the filesystem cannot be unmounted without either stopping the
NFS server completely, or blocking all access from that client
(unexporting all filesystems) and waiting for the lease timeout.
For NFSv3 - and particularly NLM - it is possible to revoke all state by
writing the path to the filesystem into /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_filesystem.
This series extends this functionality to NFSv4. With this, to unmount
an exported filesystem is it sufficient to disable export of that
filesystem, and then write the path to unlock_filesystem.
I've cursed mainly on NFSv4.1 and later for this. I haven't tested
yet with NFSv4.0 which has different mechanisms for state management.
If this series is seen as a general acceptable approach, I'll look into
the NFSv4.0 aspects properly and make sure it works there.
Thanks,
NeilBrown
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NeilBrown (4):
nfsd: prepare for supporting admin-revocation of state
nfsd: allow open state ids to be revoked and then freed
nfsd: allow lock state ids to be revoked and then freed
nfsd: allow delegation state ids to be revoked and then freed
fs/nfsd/nfs4state.c | 105 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 96 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
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