From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 01/18] vfs: export new_inode_pseudo
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 11:49:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200909184912.GA425889@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f04ca91e7c617c01e8428725a5286157415a3dac.camel@kernel.org>
[+Cc Al]
On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 12:51:02PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > > No, more like:
> > >
> > > Syscall Workqueue
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 1. allocate an inode
> > > 2. determine we can do an async create
> > > and allocate an inode number for it
> > > 3. hash the inode (must set I_CREATING
> > > if we allocated with new_inode())
> > > 4. issue the call to the MDS
> > > 5. finish filling out the inode()
> > > 6. MDS reply comes in, and workqueue thread
> > > looks up new inode (-ESTALE)
> > > 7. unlock_new_inode()
> > >
> > >
> > > Because 6 happens before 7 in this case, we get an ESTALE on that
> > > lookup.
> >
> > How is ESTALE at (6) possible? (3) will set I_NEW on the inode when inserting
> > it into the inode hash table. Then (6) will wait for I_NEW to be cleared before
> > returning the inode. (7) will clear I_NEW and I_CREATING together.
> >
>
> Long call chain, but:
>
> ceph_fill_trace
> ceph_get_inode
> iget5_locked
> ilookup5(..._nowait, etc)
> find_inode_fast
>
>
> ...and find_inode_fast does:
>
> if (unlikely(inode->i_state & I_CREATING)) {
> spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
> return ERR_PTR(-ESTALE);
> }
Why does ilookup5() not wait for I_NEW to be cleared if the inode has
I_NEW|I_CREATING, but it does wait for I_NEW to be cleared if I_NEW is set its
own? That seems like a bug.
- Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-09 18:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-04 16:05 [RFC PATCH v2 00/18] ceph+fscrypt: context, filename and symlink support Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 01/18] vfs: export new_inode_pseudo Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 3:38 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-08 11:27 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 22:31 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-09 10:47 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-09 16:12 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-09 16:51 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-09 18:49 ` Eric Biggers [this message]
2020-09-09 19:24 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 02/18] fscrypt: drop unused inode argument from fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 03/18] fscrypt: export fscrypt_d_revalidate Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 04/18] fscrypt: add fscrypt_new_context_from_inode Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 3:48 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-08 11:29 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 12:29 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 22:34 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 05/18] fscrypt: don't balk when inode is already marked encrypted Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 3:52 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-08 12:54 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 23:08 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 06/18] fscrypt: move nokey_name conversion to separate function and export it Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 3:55 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-08 12:50 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 22:53 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-09 16:02 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 07/18] lib: lift fscrypt base64 conversion into lib/ Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 3:59 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-08 12:51 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 08/18] ceph: add fscrypt ioctls Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 09/18] ceph: crypto context handling for ceph Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 4:29 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-08 16:14 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 10/18] ceph: preallocate inode for ops that may create one Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 11/18] ceph: add routine to create context prior to RPC Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 4:43 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 12/18] ceph: set S_ENCRYPTED bit if new inode has encryption.ctx xattr Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 4:57 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-09 12:20 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-09 15:53 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-09 16:33 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-09 17:19 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 13/18] ceph: make ceph_msdc_build_path use ref-walk Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 14/18] ceph: add encrypted fname handling to ceph_mdsc_build_path Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 5:06 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-09 12:24 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 15/18] ceph: make d_revalidate call fscrypt revalidator for encrypted dentries Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 5:12 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-09 12:26 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-09 16:18 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 16/18] ceph: add support to readdir for encrypted filenames Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 5:34 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-09 13:02 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 17/18] ceph: add fscrypt support to ceph_fill_trace Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:05 ` [RFC PATCH v2 18/18] ceph: create symlinks with encrypted and base64-encoded targets Jeff Layton
2020-09-04 16:11 ` Jeff Layton
2020-09-08 5:43 ` Eric Biggers
2020-09-08 5:54 ` [RFC PATCH v2 00/18] ceph+fscrypt: context, filename and symlink support Eric Biggers
2020-09-08 12:09 ` Jeff Layton
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