[GIT PULL] 9p cache=mmap regression fix (for 6.18-rc3)

[Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>]

Hi Linus,

We had a regression with cache=mmap that impacted quite a few people so
I'm sending a fix less than a couple of hours after making the commit.

If it turns out there are other side effects I'd suggest just reverting
commit 290434474c33 ("fs/9p: Refresh metadata in d_revalidate for
uncached mode too") first, but the fix is rather minimal so I think it's
ok to try falling forward -- let me know if you prefer a revert and I'll
send one instead (there's a minor conflict)

Thanks to Sung Liu for the minimal reproducer and testing, as well as
Alexei/Andrii and everyone else who looked at it.



The following changes since commit 211ddde0823f1442e4ad052a2f30f050145ccada:

  Linux 6.18-rc2 (2025-10-19 15:19:16 -1000)

are available in the Git repository at:

  https://github.com/martinetd/linux tags/9p-for-6.18-rc3

for you to fetch changes up to 2776e27d404684bc43acf023d7ca15255e96b3e3:

  fs/9p: don't use cached metadata in revalidate for cache=mmap (2025-10-22 08:04:05 +0900)

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Fix regression with cache=mmap in 6.18-rc1

Will do some more testing as time allows but this fixes the immediate
issue minimally (only impacts cache=mmap), and is therefore an
improvement good enough to send right away.

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Dominique Martinet (1):
      fs/9p: don't use cached metadata in revalidate for cache=mmap

 fs/9p/vfs_dentry.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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Dominique Martinet | Asmadeus