On 14/12/22 04:02, Jeff Layton wrote:
On Tue, 2022-12-13 at 19:00 +0000, Chuck Lever III wrote:
On Dec 13, 2022, at 1:08 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If v4 READDIR operation hits a mountpoint and gets back an error,
then it will include that entry in the reply and set RDATTR_ERROR for it
to the error.
That's fine for "normal" exported filesystems, but on the v4root, we
need to be more careful to only expose the existence of dentries that
lead to exports.
If the mountd upcall times out while checking to see whether a
mountpoint on the v4root is exported, then we have no recourse other
than to fail the whole operation.
Thank you for chasing this down!
Failing the whole READDIR when mountd times out might be a bad idea.
If the mountd upcall times out every time, the client can't make
any progress and will continue to emit the failing READDIR request.
Would it be better to skip the unresolvable entry instead and let
the READDIR succeed without that entry?
Mounting doesn't usually require working READDIR. In that situation, a
readdir() might hang (until the client kills), but a lookup of other
dentries that aren't perpetually stalled should be ok in this situation.
If mountd is that hosed then I think it's unlikely that any progress
will be possible anyway.
The READDIR shouldn't trigger a mount yes, but if it's a valid automount
point (basically a valid dentry in this case I think) it should be listed.
It certainly shouldn't hold up the READDIR, passing into it is when a
mount should occur.
That's usually the behavior we want for automounts, we don't want mount
storms on directories full of automount points.
Ian
