From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: NeilBrown Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] nfsd: Pin to vfsmnt instead of mntget Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 14:25:15 +1000 Message-ID: <20150513142515.6bd881c8@notabene.brown> References: <554A149B.5060102@gmail.com> <554A154B.6040103@gmail.com> <20150508144031.6f0d3cda@notabene.brown> <20150508134744.GA23753@fieldses.org> <5550A9DF.1070908@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Sig_/wYaxr3jgzWBoildcHHrztJS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Al Viro , Trond Myklebust To: Kinglong Mee Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5550A9DF.1070908-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-nfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org --Sig_/wYaxr3jgzWBoildcHHrztJS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 11 May 2015 21:08:47 +0800 Kinglong Mee wro= te: > On 5/8/2015 9:47 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Fri, May 08, 2015 at 02:40:31PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > >> Thanks for this patch. It looks good! > >> > >> My only comment on the code is that I would really like to see a > >> "path_get_pin()" and "path_put_unpin()" rather than open coding: > >> > >>> + dget(item->ek_path.dentry); > >>> + pin_insert_group(&new->ek_pin, item->ek_path.mnt, NULL); > >> > >> and=20 > >> > >>> + dput(key->ek_path.dentry); > >>> + pin_remove(&key->ek_pin); > >> > >> > >> But the question you raise is an important one: Exactly which filesys= tems > >> should be allowed to be unmounted? > >> This is a change in behaviour - is it one that people uniformly would = want? > >> > >> The kernel doesn't currently know which file systems were explicitly l= isted > >> in /etc/exports, and which were found by following a 'crossmnt'. > >> It could guess and allow the unmounting of anything below a 'crossmnt'= , but I > >> wouldn't be comfortable with that - it is error prone. > >> > >> mountd does know what is in /etc/exports, and could tell the kernel. > >> For the expkey cache, we could always use path_get_pin. > >> For the export cache (where flags are available) we could use path_get > >> or path_get_pin depending on some new flag. > >> > >> I'm not really sure it is worth it. I would rather the filesystems co= uld > >> always be unmounted. But doing that could possibly break someone's wo= rk > >> flow. Maybe. > >> > >> Or maybe I'm seeing problems where there aren't any. > >> > >> Anyone else have an opinion? > >=20 > > The undisputed bug here was negative cache entries preventing unmount. > > So most conservative might be just to purge negative entries. >=20 > I'd like this, > if the cache is valid, user should not be allowed to umount the filesyste= m. >=20 > >=20 > > Otherwise, the only guarantees I think we've really had is that we won't > > allow unmount if you hold any actual state on the filesystem (NLM locks, > > NFSv4 locks, opens, or delegations). >=20 > Those resources hold the reference of vfsmnt. >=20 > >=20 > > If a filesystem is exported but no clients hold state on it, then it's > > currently mostly chance whether the unmount succeeds or not. So we're > > probably free to change the behavior in this case. I'd be inclined to > > allow the unmount, but haven't thought this through carefully. >=20 > If client mount a nfsserver succeed without holds state,=20 > nfs server umounts the exported filesystem,=20 > client also think the filesystem is valid, but it is umounted. This is no different from "exportfs -au" being run on the server, thus unexporting the filesystem and making in unavailable to the client, even though the client has it mounted. I think we need to give the server admin control of their filesystems, and assume they won't do something that they don't really want to do. >=20 > >=20 > > It could also be useful to have the ability to force an unmount even in > > the presence of locks. That's not a safe default, but an > > "allow_force_unmount" export option might be useful. We already have a mechanism to forcibly drop any locks by writing some magic to /proc/fs/nfsd/unlock_{ip,filesystem}. I don't think we need any more. 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