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Commit 3da76276 authored by Andrew Perepechko's avatar Andrew Perepechko Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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staging/lustre: avoid clearing i_nlink for inodes in use



The patch removes find_cbdata callbacks and clear_nlink
from dentry_iput path, since this piece of code makes
a few races possible.

The test case reproduces one of the possible races
described in LU-7925:

1) two hard links are created for the same file
2) the test calls stat(2) for link #1
3) in the middle of 2) the test opens and closes link #2
4) in the middle of 2) the test drops the ldlm locks and
   forces dentry reclaim via vm.drop_caches=2
5) in the middle of 2) ll_d_iput() clears i_nlink for
   the inode
6) the initial stat(2) continues and copies the wrong
   i_nlink value into st_nlink

Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Perepechko <andrew.perepechko@seagate.com>
Seagate-bug-id: MRP-3271
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/19164
Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-7925


Reviewed-by: default avatarWally Wang <wang@cray.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLai Siyao <lai.siyao@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 37199135
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