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SUNRPC/cache: don't allow invalid entries to be flushed
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Trond points out in commit 277f27e ("SUNRPC/cache: Allow
garbage collection of invalid cache entries") that we allow invalid
cache entries to persist indefinitely. That fix, however,
reintroduces the problem fixed by Kinglong Mee's commit d6fc882
("SUNRPC/Cache: Always treat the invalid cache as unexpired"), where
an invalid cache entry is immediately removed by a flush before
mountd responds to it. The result is that the server thread that
should be waiting for mountd to fill in that entry instead gets an
-ETIMEDOUT return from cache_check(). Symptoms are the server
becoming unresponsive after a restart, reproduceable by running
pynfs 4.1 test REBT5.

Instead, take a compromise approach: allow invalid cache entries to
be removed after they expire, but not to be removed by a cache
flush.

Fixes: 277f27e ("SUNRPC/cache: Allow garbage collection ... ")
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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J. Bruce Fields authored and Chuck Lever committed Mar 27, 2020
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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h
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Expand Up @@ -209,8 +209,11 @@ static inline void cache_put(struct cache_head *h, struct cache_detail *cd)

static inline bool cache_is_expired(struct cache_detail *detail, struct cache_head *h)
{
return (h->expiry_time < seconds_since_boot()) ||
(detail->flush_time >= h->last_refresh);
if (h->expiry_time < seconds_since_boot())
return true;
if (!test_bit(CACHE_VALID, &h->flags))
return false;
return detail->flush_time >= h->last_refresh;
}

extern int cache_check(struct cache_detail *detail,
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