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orangefs: reverse sense of is-inode-stale test in d_revalidate

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If a dentry is deleted, then a dentry is recreated with the same handle
but a different type (i.e. it was a file and now it's a symlink), then
its a different inode.  The check was backwards, so d_revalidate would
not have noticed.

Due to the design of the OrangeFS server, this is rather unlikely.

It's also possible for the dentry to be deleted and recreated with the
same type.  This would be undetectable.  It's a bit of a ship of
Theseus.

Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
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Martin Brandenburg 2018-02-06 14:01:26 +00:00 committed by Mike Marshall
parent 480e5ae9b8
commit 74e938c227
1 changed files with 7 additions and 10 deletions
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fs/orangefs/dcache.c
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@ -118,8 +118,12 @@ static int orangefs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
return 0;
/* We do not need to continue with negative dentries. */
if (!dentry->d_inode)
goto out;
if (!dentry->d_inode) {
gossip_debug(GOSSIP_DCACHE_DEBUG,
"%s: negative dentry or positive dentry and inode valid.\n",
__func__);
return 1;
}
/* Now we must perform a getattr to validate the inode contents. */
@ -129,14 +133,7 @@ static int orangefs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
__FILE__, __func__, __LINE__);
return 0;
}
if (ret == 0)
return 0;
out:
gossip_debug(GOSSIP_DCACHE_DEBUG,
"%s: negative dentry or positive dentry and inode valid.\n",
__func__);
return 1;
return !ret;
}
const struct dentry_operations orangefs_dentry_operations = {