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From: Jeffrey Mitchell <jeffrey.mitchell@starlab.io>
To: Tyler Hicks <code@tyhicks.com>
Cc: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dan Robertson <daniel.robertson@starlab.io>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: Fix inodes not being evicted until unmount
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 09:22:55 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210202152255.GA3383@jeffrey-work-20.04> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210130170640.GA58096@elm>

On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 11:06:40AM -0600, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> Hey Jeffrey and Dan - thanks for the patch! Unfortunately, I think this
> would allow the eCryptfs inode's nlink count to get out of sync with the
> lower inode's nlink count in the case of direct manipulation to the
> lower filesystem.

Hmm. What if I instead synchronize it before calling vfs_unlink(), then
call drop_nlink() if vfs_unlink() succeeds?

> Is the condition that you're trying to fix a result of going through the
> this code path?
> 
>  ecryptfs_unlink() -> ecryptfs_do_unlink() -> vfs_unlink() -> nfs_unlink() -> nfs_sillyrename() -> nfs_async_unlink()

Yes, that is the code path that causes it.

V/R,
Jeffrey Mitchell

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-02 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-18 19:07 [PATCH] ecryptfs: Fix inodes not being evicted until unmount Jeffrey Mitchell
2020-12-18 19:10 ` Jeffrey Mitchell
2021-01-30 17:06 ` Tyler Hicks
2021-02-02 15:22   ` Jeffrey Mitchell [this message]
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2020-05-08 14:31 Jeffrey Mitchell
2020-05-08 14:32 ` Jeffrey Mitchell

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