From 7c2dad99d60c86ec686b3bfdcb787c450a7ea89f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 12:06:30 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] NFS: Don't let the ctime override attribute barriers. Chuck reports seeing cases where a GETATTR that happens to race with an asynchronous WRITE is overriding the file size, despite the attribute barrier being set by the writeback code. The culprit turns out to be the check in nfs_ctime_need_update(), which sees that the ctime is newer than the cached ctime, and assumes that it is safe to override the attribute barrier. This patch removes that override, and ensures that attribute barriers are always respected. Reported-by: Chuck Lever Fixes: a08a8cd375db9 ("NFS: Add attribute update barriers to NFS writebacks") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+ Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- fs/nfs/inode.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c index 382c8a46c078..2744d48bbbfe 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c @@ -1267,13 +1267,6 @@ static int nfs_check_inode_attributes(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_fattr *fat return 0; } -static int nfs_ctime_need_update(const struct inode *inode, const struct nfs_fattr *fattr) -{ - if (!(fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_CTIME)) - return 0; - return timespec_compare(&fattr->ctime, &inode->i_ctime) > 0; -} - static atomic_long_t nfs_attr_generation_counter; static unsigned long nfs_read_attr_generation_counter(void) @@ -1422,7 +1415,6 @@ static int nfs_inode_attrs_need_update(const struct inode *inode, const struct n const struct nfs_inode *nfsi = NFS_I(inode); return ((long)fattr->gencount - (long)nfsi->attr_gencount) > 0 || - nfs_ctime_need_update(inode, fattr) || ((long)nfsi->attr_gencount - (long)nfs_read_attr_generation_counter() > 0); } -- 2.20.1