4.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit daf3761c9fcde0f4ca64321cbed6c1c86d304193 upstream. Leandro Awa writes: "After switching to version 4.1.6, our parallelized and distributed workflows now fail consistently with errors of the form: T34: ./regex.c:39:22: error: config.h: No such file or directory From our 'git bisect' testing, the following commit appears to be the possible cause of the behavior we've been seeing: commit 766c4cbfacd8" Al Viro says: "What happens is that 766c4cbfacd8 got the things subtly wrong. We used to treat d_is_negative() after lookup_fast() as "fall with ENOENT". That was wrong - checking ->d_flags outside of ->d_seq protection is unreliable and failing with hard error on what should've fallen back to non-RCU pathname resolution is a bug. Unfortunately, we'd pulled the test too far up and ran afoul of another kind of staleness. The dentry might have been absolutely stable from the RCU point of view (and we might be on UP, etc), but stale from the remote fs point of view. If ->d_revalidate() returns "it's actually stale", dentry gets thrown away and the original code wouldn't even have looked at its ->d_flags. What we need is to check ->d_flags where 766c4cbfacd8 does (prior to ->d_seq validation) but only use the result in cases where we do not discard this dentry outright" Reported-by: Leandro Awa <lawa@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104911 Fixes: 766c4cbfacd8 ("namei: d_is_negative() should be checked...") Tested-by: Leandro Awa <lawa@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1453,8 +1453,6 @@ static int lookup_fast(struct nameidata negative = d_is_negative(dentry); if (read_seqcount_retry(&dentry->d_seq, seq)) return -ECHILD; - if (negative) - return -ENOENT; /* * This sequence count validates that the parent had no @@ -1475,6 +1473,12 @@ static int lookup_fast(struct nameidata goto unlazy; } } + /* + * Note: do negative dentry check after revalidation in + * case that drops it. + */ + if (negative) + return -ENOENT; path->mnt = mnt; path->dentry = dentry; if (likely(__follow_mount_rcu(nd, path, inode))) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html