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From: Frank van der Linden <fllinden@amazon.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: <chuck.lever@oracle.com>, <linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/14] xattr: modify vfs_{set, remove}xattr for NFS server use
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 16:07:02 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200313160702.GA31307@dev-dsk-fllinden-2c-c1893d73.us-west-2.amazon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200313153549.GD12537@fieldses.org>

On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 11:35:49AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 07:59:42PM +0000, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> > Second, RFC 8276 (NFSv4 extended attribute support) specifies that
> > delegations should be recalled (8.4.2.4, 8.4.4.4) when a SETXATTR
> > or REMOVEXATTR operation is performed. So, like with other fs
> > operations, try to break the delegation. The _locked version of
> > these operations will not wait for the delegation to be successfully
> > broken, instead returning an error if it wasn't, so that the NFS
> > server code can return NFS4ERR_DELAY to the client (similar to
> > what e.g. vfs_link does).
> 
> Is there a preexisting bug here?  Even without NFS support for xattrs, a
> local setxattr on the filesystem should still revoke any delegations
> held by remote NFS clients.  I couldn't tell whether we're getting that
> right from a quick look at the current code.
> 
> --b.

I think there's currently a bug if that's the expected behavior, yes.
Attribute changes will call notify_change(), and other methods (unlink,
link, rename) call try_break_deleg(). But the xattr entry points
don't do that, which is why I added it.

- Frank

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-13 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-11 19:59 [PATCH 00/14] server side user xattr support (RFC 8276) Frank van der Linden
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 01/14] nfs,nfsd: NFSv4.2 extended attribute protocol definitions Frank van der Linden
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 02/14] xattr: modify vfs_{set,remove}xattr for NFS server use Frank van der Linden
2020-03-12 16:23   ` Chuck Lever
2020-03-13 15:35   ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-03-13 16:07     ` Frank van der Linden [this message]
2020-03-13 21:06       ` [PATCH 02/14] xattr: modify vfs_{set, remove}xattr " J. Bruce Fields
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 03/14] nfsd: split off the write decode code in to a separate function Frank van der Linden
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 04/14] nfsd: make sure the nfsd4_ops array has the right size Frank van der Linden
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 05/14] nfsd: add defines for NFSv4.2 extended attribute support Frank van der Linden
2020-03-12 16:23   ` Chuck Lever
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 06/14] nfsd: define xattr functions to call in to their vfs counterparts Frank van der Linden
2020-03-12  7:37   ` kbuild test robot
2020-03-12 16:23   ` Chuck Lever
2020-03-12 17:16     ` Frank van der Linden
2020-03-12 17:57       ` Chuck Lever
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 07/14] nfsd: take xattr bits in to account for permission checks Frank van der Linden
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 08/14] nfsd: add structure definitions for xattr requests / responses Frank van der Linden
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 09/14] nfsd: use kvmalloc in svcxdr_tmpalloc Frank van der Linden
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 10/14] nfsd: implement the xattr procedure functions Frank van der Linden
2020-03-12 10:28   ` kbuild test robot
2020-03-12 16:24   ` Chuck Lever
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 11/14] nfsd: add user xattr RPC XDR encoding/decoding logic Frank van der Linden
2020-03-12 13:28   ` kbuild test robot
2020-03-12 16:24   ` Chuck Lever
2020-03-19 22:13     ` Frank van der Linden
2020-03-19 22:15       ` Chuck Lever
2020-03-25 23:44     ` Frank van der Linden
2020-03-26 14:12       ` Chuck Lever
2020-03-12 19:16   ` Chuck Lever
2020-03-20 16:47     ` Frank van der Linden
2020-03-20 17:34       ` Chuck Lever
2020-03-20 17:54         ` J. Bruce Fields
2020-03-20 19:44         ` Frank van der Linden
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 12/14] nfsd: add xattr operations to ops array Frank van der Linden
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 13/14] xattr: add a function to check if a namespace is supported Frank van der Linden
2020-03-12 16:24   ` Chuck Lever
2020-03-11 19:59 ` [PATCH 14/14] nfsd: add fattr support for user extended attributes Frank van der Linden

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