linux/fs/nfs
Suresh Jayaraman a71ee337b3 NFS: Handle -ESTALE error in access()
Hi Trond,

I have been looking at a bugreport where trying to open applications on KDE
on a NFS mounted home fails temporarily. There have been multiple reports on
different kernel versions pointing to this common issue:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12557
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/269954
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508866.html

This issue can be reproducible consistently by doing this on a NFS mounted
home (KDE):
1. Open 2 xterm sessions
2. From one of the xterm session, do "ssh -X <remote host>"
3. "stat ~/.Xauthority" on the remote SSH session
4. Close the two xterm sessions
5. On the server do a "stat ~/.Xauthority"
6. Now on the client, try to open xterm
This will fail.

Even if the filehandle had become stale, the NFS client should invalidate
the cache/inode and should repeat LOOKUP. Looking at the packet capture when
the failure occurs shows that there were two subsequent ACCESS() calls with
the same filehandle and both fails with -ESTALE error.

I have tested the fix below. Now the client issue a LOOKUP after the
ACCESS() call fails with -ESTALE. If all this makes sense to you, can you
consider this for inclusion?

Thanks,


If the server returns an -ESTALE error due to stale filehandle in response to
an ACCESS() call, we need to invalidate the cache and inode so that LOOKUP()
can be retried. Without this change, the nfs client retries ACCESS() with the
same filehandle, fails again and could lead to temporary failure of
applications running on nfs mounted home.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2009-03-10 20:33:21 -04:00
..
callback_proc.c nfs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-05-16 09:43:29 -07:00
callback_xdr.c nfs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences 2008-05-16 09:43:29 -07:00
callback.c rpc: allow gss callbacks to client 2008-12-23 16:18:34 -05:00
callback.h NFS: Change cb_recallargs to pass "struct sockaddr *" instead of sockaddr_in 2008-01-30 02:05:55 -05:00
client.c NFSv4: Fix up delegation callbacks 2008-12-23 15:21:53 -05:00
delegation.c NFSv4: Convert delegation->type field to fmode_t 2008-12-23 15:21:53 -05:00
delegation.h NFSv4: Convert delegation->type field to fmode_t 2008-12-23 15:21:53 -05:00
dir.c NFS: Handle -ESTALE error in access() 2009-03-10 20:33:21 -04:00
direct.c NFS: Use NFSDBG_FILE for all fops 2008-07-09 12:09:04 -04:00
file.c fs: symlink write_begin allocation context fix 2009-01-04 13:33:20 -08:00
getroot.c [PATCH] switch all filesystems over to d_obtain_alias 2008-10-23 05:13:01 -04:00
idmap.c nfs: fix sparse warnings 2008-02-20 16:15:44 -05:00
inode.c optimize attribute timeouts for "noac" and "actimeo=0" 2008-12-23 15:21:56 -05:00
internal.h NFS: "[no]resvport" mount option changes mountd client too 2008-12-23 15:21:37 -05:00
iostat.h NFS: Fix a warning in nfs4_async_handle_error 2008-07-09 12:09:18 -04:00
Kconfig fs/Kconfig: move nfs out 2009-01-22 13:16:00 +03:00
Makefile NFS: Always enable NFS direct I/O 2008-03-19 18:00:34 -04:00
mount_clnt.c NFS: "[no]resvport" mount option changes mountd client too 2008-12-23 15:21:37 -05:00
namespace.c nfs: BUG_ON in nfs_follow_mountpoint 2008-10-07 18:15:16 -04:00
nfs2xdr.c nfs: return negative error value from nfs{,4}_stat_to_errno 2008-04-19 16:54:47 -04:00
nfs3acl.c NFSv3: Fix posix ACL code 2009-03-10 20:33:18 -04:00
nfs3proc.c nfs: authenticated deep mounting 2008-10-07 18:16:22 -04:00
nfs3xdr.c NFSv3: Fix posix ACL code 2009-03-10 20:33:18 -04:00
nfs4_fs.h fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c: make nfs4_map_errors() static 2008-12-30 16:35:55 -05:00
nfs4namespace.c NFS: Fix misparsing of nfsv4 fs_locations attribute (take 2) 2009-03-10 20:33:17 -04:00
nfs4proc.c fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c: make nfs4_map_errors() static 2008-12-30 16:35:55 -05:00
nfs4renewd.c NFSv4: Return unreferenced delegations more promptly 2008-12-23 15:21:52 -05:00
nfs4state.c NFSv4: Convert the open and close ops to use fmode 2008-12-23 15:21:56 -05:00
nfs4xdr.c NFS: remove unused status from encode routines 2008-12-23 16:06:18 -05:00
nfsroot.c Merge branch 'devel' into next 2008-12-30 16:51:43 -05:00
pagelist.c Merge branch 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc 2008-02-01 11:45:47 +11:00
proc.c nfs: authenticated deep mounting 2008-10-07 18:16:22 -04:00
read.c nfs: remove redundant tests on reading new pages 2008-12-23 15:21:30 -05:00
super.c Merge branch 'devel' into next 2008-12-30 16:51:43 -05:00
symlink.c nfs: remove unnecessary NFS_NEED_* defines 2008-04-23 16:13:37 -04:00
sysctl.c [PATCH] nfs: fix congestion control 2007-03-16 19:25:05 -07:00
unlink.c NFS: Clean up nfs_sb_active/nfs_sb_deactive 2008-10-06 20:08:26 -04:00
write.c NFS: Don't use range_cyclic for data integrity syncs 2008-10-07 18:19:05 -04:00