From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 6c441c254eea2354d686be7f5544bcd79fb6a61f upstream. If we're traversing a directory which contains a submounted filesystem, or one that has a referral, the NFS server that is processing the READDIR request will often return information for the underlying (mounted-on) directory. It may, or may not, also return filehandle information. If this happens, and the lookup in nfs_prime_dcache() returns the dentry for the submounted directory, the filehandle comparison will fail, and we call d_invalidate(). Post-commit 8ed936b5671bf ("vfs: Lazily remove mounts on unlinked files and directories."), this means the entire subtree is unmounted. The following minimal patch addresses this problem by punting on the invalidation if there is a submount. Kudos to Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> for having tracked down this issue (see link). Reported-by: Nix <nix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87iofju9ht.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index 6e62155..7a8d67c 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -469,6 +469,8 @@ void nfs_prime_dcache(struct dentry *parent, struct nfs_entry *entry) struct inode *inode; int status; + if (!(entry->fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_FSID)) + return; if (filename.name[0] == '.') { if (filename.len == 1) return; @@ -479,6 +481,10 @@ void nfs_prime_dcache(struct dentry *parent, struct nfs_entry *entry) dentry = d_lookup(parent, &filename); if (dentry != NULL) { + /* Is there a mountpoint here? If so, just exit */ + if (!nfs_fsid_equal(&NFS_SB(dentry->d_sb)->fsid, + &entry->fattr->fsid)) + goto out; if (nfs_same_file(dentry, entry)) { nfs_set_verifier(dentry, nfs_save_change_attribute(dir)); status = nfs_refresh_inode(dentry->d_inode, entry->fattr); -- 2.1.0 -- 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