This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFS: Don't gratuitously clear the inode cache when lookup failed
to the 5.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nfs-don-t-gratuitously-clear-the-inode-cache-when-lo.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 360fe16622f795dbe08c1e33f8de306cd85f2f5a
Author: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Mar 8 14:42:52 2021 -0500
NFS: Don't gratuitously clear the inode cache when lookup failed
[ Upstream commit 47397915ede0192235474b145ebcd81b37b03624 ]
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>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 7bcc6fcf1096..4db3018776f6 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;
