Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: llite: drop acl from cache

[Andreas GrÃnbacher]

2016-05-24 2:35 GMT+02:00 James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Commit b8a7a3a6 change get_acl() for posix xattr to always cache
> the ACL which increases the reference count. That reference count
> can be reduced by have ll_get_acl() call forget_cached_acl() which
> it wasn't. When an inode gets deleted by Lustre the POSIX ACL
> reference count is tested to ensure its 1 and if not produces an error.

Lustre shouldn't assume that the VFS immediately drops the reference
it is passed. Please remove that check as well.

> Since forget_cached_acl() was not called Lustre started to complain.
> This patch changes ll_get_acl() to call forget_cached_acl().
>
> Signed-off-by: James Simmons <jsimmons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c
> index f47f2ac..0191945 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c
> @@ -3124,6 +3124,7 @@ struct posix_acl *ll_get_acl(struct inode *inode, int type)
>         spin_lock(&lli->lli_lock);
>         /* VFS' acl_permission_check->check_acl will release the refcount */
>         acl = posix_acl_dup(lli->lli_posix_acl);
> +       forget_cached_acl(inode, type);
>         spin_unlock(&lli->lli_lock);
>
>         return acl;
> --
> 1.7.1
>