NFS: only invalidate dentrys that are clearly invalid.

Since commit bafc9b754f75 ("vfs: More precise tests in d_invalidate")
in v3.18, a return of '0' from ->d_revalidate() will cause the dentry
to be invalidated even if it has filesystems mounted on or it or on a
descendant.  The mounted filesystem is unmounted.

This means we need to be careful not to return 0 unless the directory
referred to truly is invalid.  So -ESTALE or -ENOENT should invalidate
the directory.  Other errors such a -EPERM or -ERESTARTSYS should be
returned from ->d_revalidate() so they are propagated to the caller.

A particular problem can be demonstrated by:

1/ mount an NFS filesystem using NFSv3 on /mnt
2/ mount any other filesystem on /mnt/foo
3/ ls /mnt/foo
4/ turn off network, or otherwise make the server unable to respond
5/ ls /mnt/foo &
6/ cat /proc/$!/stack # note that nfs_lookup_revalidate is in the call stack
7/ kill -9 $! # this results in -ERESTARTSYS being returned
8/ observe that /mnt/foo has been unmounted.

This patch changes nfs_lookup_revalidate() to only treat
  -ESTALE from nfs_lookup_verify_inode() and
  -ESTALE or -ENOENT from ->lookup()
as indicating an invalid inode.  Other errors are returned.

Also nfs_check_inode_attributes() is changed to return -ESTALE rather
than -EIO.  This is consistent with the error returned in similar
circumstances from nfs_update_inode().

As this bug allows any user to unmount a filesystem mounted on an NFS
filesystem, this fix is suitable for stable kernels.

Fixes: bafc9b754f75 ("vfs: More precise tests in d_invalidate")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.18+)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
index 1de93ba78dc95..8c465d3c7e057 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
@@ -1315,9 +1315,9 @@ static int nfs_check_inode_attributes(struct inode *inode, struct nfs_fattr *fat
 		return 0;
 	/* Has the inode gone and changed behind our back? */
 	if ((fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_FILEID) && nfsi->fileid != fattr->fileid)
-		return -EIO;
+		return -ESTALE;
 	if ((fattr->valid & NFS_ATTR_FATTR_TYPE) && (inode->i_mode & S_IFMT) != (fattr->mode & S_IFMT))
-		return -EIO;
+		return -ESTALE;
 
 	if (!nfs_file_has_buffered_writers(nfsi)) {
 		/* Verify a few of the more important attributes */