This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled NFS: revalidate "." etc correctly on "open". to the 4.14-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-revalidate-.-etc-correctly-on-open.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b688741cb06695312f18b730653d6611e1bad28d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:34:41 +1000 Subject: NFS: revalidate "." etc correctly on "open". From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> commit b688741cb06695312f18b730653d6611e1bad28d upstream. For correct close-to-open semantics, NFS must validate the change attribute of a directory (or file) on open. Since commit ecf3d1f1aa74 ("vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op"), open() of "." or a path ending ".." is not revalidated reliably (except when that direct is a mount point). Prior to that commit, "." was revalidated using nfs_lookup_revalidate() which checks the LOOKUP_OPEN flag and forces revalidation if the flag is set. Since that commit, nfs_weak_revalidate() is used for NFSv3 (which ignores the flags) and nothing is used for NFSv4. This is fixed by using nfs_lookup_verify_inode() in nfs_weak_revalidate(). This does the revalidation exactly when needed. Also, add a definition of .d_weak_revalidate for NFSv4. The incorrect behavior is easily demonstrated by running "echo *" in some non-mountpoint NFS directory while watching network traffic. Without this patch, "echo *" sometimes doesn't produce any traffic. With the patch it always does. Fixes: ecf3d1f1aa74 ("vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -1241,8 +1241,7 @@ static int nfs_weak_revalidate(struct de return 0; } - if (nfs_mapping_need_revalidate_inode(inode)) - error = __nfs_revalidate_inode(NFS_SERVER(inode), inode); + error = nfs_lookup_verify_inode(inode, flags); dfprintk(LOOKUPCACHE, "NFS: %s: inode %lu is %s\n", __func__, inode->i_ino, error ? "invalid" : "valid"); return !error; @@ -1393,6 +1392,7 @@ static int nfs4_lookup_revalidate(struct const struct dentry_operations nfs4_dentry_operations = { .d_revalidate = nfs4_lookup_revalidate, + .d_weak_revalidate = nfs_weak_revalidate, .d_delete = nfs_dentry_delete, .d_iput = nfs_dentry_iput, .d_automount = nfs_d_automount, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/md-fix-deadlock-error-in-recent-patch.patch queue-4.14/autofs-don-t-fail-mount-for-transient-error.patch queue-4.14/md-bitmap-revert-a-patch.patch queue-4.14/nfs-revalidate-.-etc-correctly-on-open.patch