Re: [PATCH] cifs: Fix reacquisition of volume cookie on still-live connection

[Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.com>]

Hi Dave,

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes:

> During mount, cifs_mount_get_tcon() gets a tcon resource connection record
> and then attaches an fscache volume cookie to it.  However, it does this
> irrespective of whether or not the tcon returned from cifs_get_tcon() is a
> new record or one that's already in use.  This leads to a warning about a
> volume cookie collision and a leaked volume cookie because tcon->fscache
> gets reset.
>
> Fix this be adding a mutex and a "we've already tried this" flag and only
> doing it once for the lifetime of the tcon.

Can't we just move the cookie acquisition to cifs_get_tcon() before it
gets added to list @ses->tcon_list.  This way we'll guarantee that the
cookie is set only once for the new tcon.

Besides, do we want to share a tcon with two different superblocks that
have 'fsc' and 'nofsc', respectively?  If not, it would be better to fix
match_tcon() as well to handle such case.

> [!] Note: Looking at cifs_mount_get_tcon(), a more general solution may
> actually be required.  Reacquiring the volume cookie isn't the only thing
> that function does: it also partially reinitialises the tcon record without
> any locking - which may cause live filesystem ops already using the tcon
> through a previous mount to malfunction.

Agreed.