Re: [PATCH v6 4/9] nfs: report the inode version in getattr if requested

[NeilBrown]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2022, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Allow NFS to report the i_version in getattr requests. Since the cost to
> fetch it is relatively cheap, do it unconditionally and just set the
> flag if it looks like it's valid. Also, conditionally enable the
> MONOTONIC flag when the server reports its change attr type as such.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/inode.c | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/inode.c b/fs/nfs/inode.c
> index bea7c005119c..5cb7017e5089 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/inode.c
> @@ -830,6 +830,8 @@ static u32 nfs_get_valid_attrmask(struct inode *inode)
>  		reply_mask |= STATX_UID | STATX_GID;
>  	if (!(cache_validity & NFS_INO_INVALID_BLOCKS))
>  		reply_mask |= STATX_BLOCKS;
> +	if (!(cache_validity & NFS_INO_INVALID_CHANGE))
> +		reply_mask |= STATX_VERSION;
>  	return reply_mask;
>  }
>  
> @@ -848,7 +850,7 @@ int nfs_getattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, const struct path *path,
>  
>  	request_mask &= STATX_TYPE | STATX_MODE | STATX_NLINK | STATX_UID |
>  			STATX_GID | STATX_ATIME | STATX_MTIME | STATX_CTIME |
> -			STATX_INO | STATX_SIZE | STATX_BLOCKS;
> +			STATX_INO | STATX_SIZE | STATX_BLOCKS | STATX_VERSION;
>  
>  	if ((query_flags & AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC) && !force_sync) {
>  		if (readdirplus_enabled)
> @@ -877,7 +879,7 @@ int nfs_getattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, const struct path *path,
>  	/* Is the user requesting attributes that might need revalidation? */
>  	if (!(request_mask & (STATX_MODE|STATX_NLINK|STATX_ATIME|STATX_CTIME|
>  					STATX_MTIME|STATX_UID|STATX_GID|
> -					STATX_SIZE|STATX_BLOCKS)))
> +					STATX_SIZE|STATX_BLOCKS|STATX_VERSION)))
>  		goto out_no_revalidate;
>  
>  	/* Check whether the cached attributes are stale */
> @@ -915,6 +917,10 @@ int nfs_getattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, const struct path *path,
>  
>  	generic_fillattr(&init_user_ns, inode, stat);
>  	stat->ino = nfs_compat_user_ino64(NFS_FILEID(inode));
> +	stat->version = inode_peek_iversion_raw(inode);

This looks wrong.
1/ it includes the I_VERSION_QUERIED bit, which should be hidden.
2/ it doesn't set that bit.

I understand that the bit was already set when the generic code called
inode_query_iversion(), but it might have changed if we needed to
refresh the attrs.

I'm beginning to think I shouldn't have approved the 3/9 patch.  The
stat->version shouldn't be set in vfs_getattr_nosec() - maybe in
generic_fillattr(), but not a lot of point.

> +	stat->attributes_mask |= STATX_ATTR_VERSION_MONOTONIC;
> +	if (server->change_attr_type != NFS4_CHANGE_TYPE_IS_UNDEFINED)
> +		stat->attributes |= STATX_ATTR_VERSION_MONOTONIC;

So if the server tells us that the change attrs is based on time
metadata, we accept that it will be monotonic (and RFC7862 encourages
this), even though we seem to worry about timestamps going backwards
(which we know that can)...  Interesting.

Thanks,
NeilBrown


>  	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
>  		stat->blksize = NFS_SERVER(inode)->dtsize;
>  out:
> -- 
> 2.37.3
> 
>