Re: [RESEND PATCH v2] fuse: add support for explicit export disabling

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2024 at 04:54, Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> open_by_handle_at(2) can fail with -ESTALE with a valid handle returned
> by a previous name_to_handle_at(2) for evicted fuse inodes, which is
> especially common when entry_valid_timeout is 0, e.g. when the fuse
> daemon is in "cache=none" mode.
>
> The time sequence is like:
>
>         name_to_handle_at(2)    # succeed
>         evict fuse inode
>         open_by_handle_at(2)    # fail
>
> The root cause is that, with 0 entry_valid_timeout, the dput() called in
> name_to_handle_at(2) will trigger iput -> evict(), which will send
> FUSE_FORGET to the daemon.  The following open_by_handle_at(2) will send
> a new FUSE_LOOKUP request upon inode cache miss since the previous inode
> eviction.  Then the fuse daemon may fail the FUSE_LOOKUP request with
> -ENOENT as the cached metadata of the requested inode has already been
> cleaned up during the previous FUSE_FORGET.  The returned -ENOENT is
> treated as -ESTALE when open_by_handle_at(2) returns.
>
> This confuses the application somehow, as open_by_handle_at(2) fails
> when the previous name_to_handle_at(2) succeeds.  The returned errno is
> also confusing as the requested file is not deleted and already there.
> It is reasonable to fail name_to_handle_at(2) early in this case, after
> which the application can fallback to open(2) to access files.
>
> Since this issue typically appears when entry_valid_timeout is 0 which
> is configured by the fuse daemon, the fuse daemon is the right person to
> explicitly disable the export when required.
>
> Also considering FUSE_EXPORT_SUPPORT actually indicates the support for
> lookups of "." and "..", and there are existing fuse daemons supporting
> export without FUSE_EXPORT_SUPPORT set, for compatibility, we add a new
> INIT flag for such purpose.
>
> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.

Miklos