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NeilBrown 99bbf6ecc6 NFS: don't try to cross a mountpount when there isn't one there.
consider the sequence of commands:
 mkdir -p /import/nfs /import/bind /import/etc
 mount --bind / /import/bind
 mount --make-private /import/bind
 mount --bind /import/etc /import/bind/etc

 exportfs -o rw,no_root_squash,crossmnt,async,no_subtree_check localhost:/
 mount -o vers=4 localhost:/ /import/nfs
 ls -l /import/nfs/etc

You would not expect this to report a stale file handle.
Yet it does.

The manipulations under /import/bind cause the dentry for
/etc to get the DCACHE_MOUNTED flag set, even though nothing
is mounted on /etc.  This causes nfsd to call
nfsd_cross_mnt() even though there is no mountpoint.  So an
upcall to mountd for "/etc" is performed.

The 'crossmnt' flag on the export of / causes mountd to
report that /etc is exported as it is a descendant of /.  It
assumes the kernel wouldn't ask about something that wasn't
a mountpoint.  The filehandle returned identifies the
filesystem and the inode number of /etc.

When this filehandle is presented to rpc.mountd, via
"nfsd.fh", the inode cannot be found associated with any
name in /etc/exports, or with any mountpoint listed by
getmntent().  So rpc.mountd says the filehandle doesn't
exist. Hence ESTALE.

This is fixed by teaching nfsd not to trust DCACHE_MOUNTED
too much.  It is just a hint, not a guarantee.
Change nfsd_mountpoint() to return '1' for a certain mountpoint,
'2' for a possible mountpoint, and 0 otherwise.

Then change nfsd_crossmnt() to check if follow_down()
actually found a mountpount and, if not, to avoid performing
a lookup if the location is not known to certainly require
an export-point.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2017-04-25 17:25:54 -04:00
arch Merge branch 'ras-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-04-23 12:51:42 -07:00
block blk-mq: fix potential oops with polling and blk-mq scheduler 2017-04-20 14:53:28 -06:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-04-18 09:03:50 -07:00
Documentation pci-v4.11-fixes-5 2017-04-21 09:26:34 -07:00
drivers This pull request contains fixes for issues in both UBI and UBIFS: 2017-04-23 16:49:16 -07:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs NFS: don't try to cross a mountpount when there isn't one there. 2017-04-25 17:25:54 -04:00
include uapi: fix linux/nfsd/cld.h userspace compilation errors 2017-04-25 17:25:54 -04:00
init mm: move mm_percpu_wq initialization earlier 2017-03-31 17:13:30 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
kernel Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-04-23 12:48:05 -07:00
lib sparc64: Use LOCKDEP_SMALL, not PROVE_LOCKING_SMALL 2017-04-18 13:11:07 -07:00
mm mm: prevent NR_ISOLATE_* stats from going negative 2017-04-20 15:30:18 -07:00
net netpoll: Check for skb->queue_mapping 2017-04-21 15:45:19 -04:00
samples statx: Include a mask for stx_attributes in struct statx 2017-04-03 01:06:00 -04:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v4.11 2017-04-05 08:37:28 -07:00
security KEYS: fix keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() to not leak thread keyrings 2017-04-18 15:31:49 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda - fix a problem for lineout on a Dell AIO machine 2017-03-31 10:58:26 +02:00
tools bpf: Fix values type used in test_maps 2017-04-21 15:16:46 -04:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM/ARM Fixes for v4.11-rc6 2017-04-05 16:27:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap mailmap: add Martin Kepplinger's email 2017-04-13 18:24:21 -07:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove old e-mail address 2017-02-13 12:24:56 -05:00
Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: migrate all arch to the kconfig mainmenu upgrade 2010-09-19 22:54:11 -04:00
MAINTAINERS bpf, doc: update bpf maintainers entry 2017-04-21 15:25:10 -04:00
Makefile Linux 4.11-rc8 2017-04-23 16:53:00 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.