From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] nfsd: vfs_mkdir() might succeed leaving dentry negative unhashed
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 13:56:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180514175622.GF7160@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180514170041.GJ30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 06:00:41PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:27:04PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > > > if (!err)
> > > > err = fh_update(reshp);
> > > >
> > > > at the end of nfsd_create_locked.
> > >
> > > Might be too late for that, though - the trouble hits when we hit
> > > nfsd_create_setattr().
> >
> > Oh, got it. Could move the bottom fh_update to just above the
> > nfsd_create_setattr(), though?
>
> Probably, but I'm not comfortable enough with the nfsd guts wrt in-core
> fhandle and assumptions made by users of such, so I'd rather bounce that
> question to nfsd maintainers ;-)
I'm fine with doing it as in your patch and then queuing up cleanup
later.
--b.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-14 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-11 21:13 [RFC][PATCH] nfsd: vfs_mkdir() might succeed leaving dentry negative unhashed Al Viro
2018-05-14 15:32 ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-05-14 15:45 ` Al Viro
2018-05-14 16:27 ` J. Bruce Fields
2018-05-14 17:00 ` Al Viro
2018-05-14 17:56 ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2018-05-14 16:47 ` Al Viro
2018-05-16 14:09 ` J. Bruce Fields
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