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    afs: Fix occasional rmdir-then-VNOVNODE with generic/011 · b74c02a3
    David Howells authored
    Sometimes generic/011 causes kafs to follow up an FS.RemoveDir RPC call by
    spending around a second sending a slew of FS.FetchStatus RPC calls to the
    directory just deleted that then abort with VNOVNODE, indicating deletion
    of the target directory.
    
    This seems to stem from userspace attempting to stat the directory or
    something in it:
    
        afs_select_fileserver+0x46d/0xaa2
        afs_wait_for_operation+0x12/0x17e
        afs_fetch_status+0x56/0x75
        afs_validate+0xfb/0x240
        afs_permission+0xef/0x1b0
        inode_permission+0x90/0x139
        link_path_walk.part.0.constprop.0+0x6f/0x2f0
        path_lookupat+0x4c/0xfa
        filename_lookup+0x63/0xd7
        vfs_statx+0x62/0x13f
        vfs_fstatat+0x72/0x8a
    
    The issue appears to be that afs_dir_remove_subdir() marks the callback
    promise as being cancelled by setting the expiry time to AFS_NO_CB_PROMISE
    - which then confuses afs_validate() which sends the FetchStatus to try and
    get a new one before it checks for the AFS_VNODE_DELETED flag which
    indicates that we know the directory got deleted.
    
    Fix this by:
    
     (1) Make afs_check_validity() return true if AFS_VNODE_DELETED is set, and
         then tweak the return from afs_validate() if the DELETED flag is set.
    
     (2) Move the AFS_VNODE_DELETED check in afs_validate() up above the
         expiration check to immediately after we've grabbed the validate_lock.
    
    Fixes: 453924de ("afs: Overhaul invalidation handling to better support RO volumes")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240313081505.3060173-3-dhowells@redhat.comReviewed-by: default avatarMarc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
    cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
    cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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