From: NeilBrown <neilb@ownmail.net>
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Subject: [PATCH 20/53] afs: don't unhash/rehash dentries during unlink/rename
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:12:07 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260312214330.3885211-21-neilb@ownmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260312214330.3885211-1-neilb@ownmail.net>
From: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
afs needs to block lookup of dentries during unlink and rename.
There are two reasons:
1/ If the target is to be removed, not silly-renamed, the subsequent
opens cannot be allowed as the file won't exist on the server.
2/ If the rename source is being moved between directories a lookup,
particularly d_revalidate, might change ->d_time asynchronously
with rename changing ->d_time with possible incorrect results.
afs current unhashes the dentry to force a lookup which will wait on the
directory lock, and rehashes afterwards. This is incompatible with
proposed changed to directory locking which will require a dentry to
remain hashed throughout rename/unlink/etc operations.
This patch copies a mechanism developed for NFS. ->d_fsdata which is
currently unused is now set to a non-NULL value when lookups must be
blocked. d_revalidate checks for this value, and waits for it to become
NULL.
->d_lock is used to ensure d_revalidate never updates ->d_time while
->d_fsdata is set.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
---
fs/afs/afs.h | 7 ++++++
fs/afs/dir.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
fs/afs/internal.h | 5 +---
3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/afs/afs.h b/fs/afs/afs.h
index ec3db00bd081..019e77b08458 100644
--- a/fs/afs/afs.h
+++ b/fs/afs/afs.h
@@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ typedef u64 afs_volid_t;
typedef u64 afs_vnodeid_t;
typedef u64 afs_dataversion_t;
+/* This is stored in ->d_fsdata to stop d_revalidate looking at,
+ * and possibly changing, ->d_time on a dentry which is being moved
+ * between directories, and to block lookup for dentry that is
+ * being removed without silly-rename.
+ */
+#define AFS_FSDATA_BLOCKED ((void*)1)
+
typedef enum {
AFSVL_RWVOL, /* read/write volume */
AFSVL_ROVOL, /* read-only volume */
diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
index a0417292314c..9c57614feccf 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
@@ -1034,6 +1034,10 @@ static int afs_d_revalidate_rcu(struct afs_vnode *dvnode, struct dentry *dentry)
if (!afs_check_validity(dvnode))
return -ECHILD;
+ /* A rename/unlink is pending */
+ if (dentry->d_fsdata)
+ return -ECHILD;
+
/* We only need to invalidate a dentry if the server's copy changed
* behind our back. If we made the change, it's no problem. Note that
* on a 32-bit system, we only have 32 bits in the dentry to store the
@@ -1069,6 +1073,10 @@ static int afs_d_revalidate(struct inode *parent_dir, const struct qstr *name,
if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
return afs_d_revalidate_rcu(dir, dentry);
+ /* Wait for rename/unlink to complete */
+wait_for_rename:
+ wait_var_event(&dentry->d_fsdata, dentry->d_fsdata == NULL);
+
if (d_really_is_positive(dentry)) {
vnode = AFS_FS_I(d_inode(dentry));
_enter("{v={%llx:%llu} n=%pd fl=%lx},",
@@ -1161,7 +1169,13 @@ static int afs_d_revalidate(struct inode *parent_dir, const struct qstr *name,
}
out_valid:
+ spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
+ if (dentry->d_fsdata) {
+ spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
+ goto wait_for_rename;
+ }
dentry->d_time = (unsigned long)dir_version;
+ spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
out_valid_noupdate:
key_put(key);
_leave(" = 1 [valid]");
@@ -1536,8 +1550,7 @@ static void afs_unlink_edit_dir(struct afs_operation *op)
static void afs_unlink_put(struct afs_operation *op)
{
_enter("op=%08x", op->debug_id);
- if (op->unlink.need_rehash && afs_op_error(op) < 0 && afs_op_error(op) != -ENOENT)
- d_rehash(op->dentry);
+ store_release_wake_up(&op->dentry->d_fsdata, NULL);
}
static const struct afs_operation_ops afs_unlink_operation = {
@@ -1591,11 +1604,7 @@ static int afs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
afs_op_set_error(op, afs_sillyrename(dvnode, vnode, dentry, op->key));
goto error;
}
- if (!d_unhashed(dentry)) {
- /* Prevent a race with RCU lookup. */
- __d_drop(dentry);
- op->unlink.need_rehash = true;
- }
+ dentry->d_fsdata = AFS_FSDATA_BLOCKED;
spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
op->file[1].vnode = vnode;
@@ -1885,9 +1894,10 @@ static void afs_rename_edit_dir(struct afs_operation *op)
_enter("op=%08x", op->debug_id);
- if (op->rename.rehash) {
- d_rehash(op->rename.rehash);
- op->rename.rehash = NULL;
+ if (op->rename.unblock) {
+ /* Rename has finished, so unlocks lookups to target */
+ store_release_wake_up(&op->rename.unblock->d_fsdata, NULL);
+ op->rename.unblock = NULL;
}
fscache_begin_write_operation(&orig_cres, afs_vnode_cache(orig_dvnode));
@@ -1970,6 +1980,9 @@ static void afs_rename_exchange_edit_dir(struct afs_operation *op)
d_exchange(old_dentry, new_dentry);
up_write(&orig_dvnode->validate_lock);
+ /* dentry has been moved, so d_validate can safely proceed */
+ store_release_wake_up(&old_dentry->d_fsdata, NULL);
+
} else {
down_write(&orig_dvnode->validate_lock);
if (test_bit(AFS_VNODE_DIR_VALID, &orig_dvnode->flags) &&
@@ -2009,11 +2022,10 @@ static void afs_rename_exchange_edit_dir(struct afs_operation *op)
static void afs_rename_put(struct afs_operation *op)
{
_enter("op=%08x", op->debug_id);
- if (op->rename.rehash)
- d_rehash(op->rename.rehash);
+ if (op->rename.unblock)
+ store_release_wake_up(&op->rename.unblock->d_fsdata, NULL);
+ store_release_wake_up(&op->dentry->d_fsdata, NULL);
dput(op->rename.tmp);
- if (afs_op_error(op))
- d_rehash(op->dentry);
}
static const struct afs_operation_ops afs_rename_operation = {
@@ -2121,7 +2133,6 @@ static int afs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
op->ops = &afs_rename_noreplace_operation;
} else if (flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE) {
op->ops = &afs_rename_exchange_operation;
- d_drop(new_dentry);
} else {
/* If we might displace the target, we might need to do silly
* rename.
@@ -2135,14 +2146,12 @@ static int afs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
*/
if (d_is_positive(new_dentry) && !d_is_dir(new_dentry)) {
/* To prevent any new references to the target during
- * the rename, we unhash the dentry in advance.
+ * the rename, we set d_fsdata which afs_d_revalidate will wait for.
+ * d_lock ensures d_count() and ->d_fsdata are consistent.
*/
- if (!d_unhashed(new_dentry)) {
- d_drop(new_dentry);
- op->rename.rehash = new_dentry;
- }
-
+ spin_lock(&new_dentry->d_lock);
if (d_count(new_dentry) > 2) {
+ spin_unlock(&new_dentry->d_lock);
/* copy the target dentry's name */
op->rename.tmp = d_alloc(new_dentry->d_parent,
&new_dentry->d_name);
@@ -2160,8 +2169,12 @@ static int afs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
}
op->dentry_2 = op->rename.tmp;
- op->rename.rehash = NULL;
op->rename.new_negative = true;
+ } else {
+ /* Block any lookups to target until the rename completes */
+ new_dentry->d_fsdata = AFS_FSDATA_BLOCKED;
+ op->rename.unblock = new_dentry;
+ spin_unlock(&new_dentry->d_lock);
}
}
}
@@ -2172,10 +2185,11 @@ static int afs_rename(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *old_dir,
* d_revalidate may see old_dentry between the op having taken place
* and the version being updated.
*
- * So drop the old_dentry for now to make other threads go through
- * lookup instead - which we hold a lock against.
+ * So block revalidate on the old_dentry until the rename completes.
*/
- d_drop(old_dentry);
+ spin_lock(&old_dentry->d_lock);
+ old_dentry->d_fsdata = AFS_FSDATA_BLOCKED;
+ spin_unlock(&old_dentry->d_lock);
ret = afs_do_sync_operation(op);
if (ret == -ENOTSUPP)
diff --git a/fs/afs/internal.h b/fs/afs/internal.h
index 106a7fe06b56..f2898ce9c0e6 100644
--- a/fs/afs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/afs/internal.h
@@ -891,10 +891,7 @@ struct afs_operation {
const char *symlink;
} create;
struct {
- bool need_rehash;
- } unlink;
- struct {
- struct dentry *rehash;
+ struct dentry *unblock;
struct dentry *tmp;
unsigned int rename_flags;
bool new_negative;
--
2.50.0.107.gf914562f5916.dirty
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-13 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-12 21:11 [PATCH RFC 00/53] lift lookup out of exclive lock for dir ops NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 01/53] VFS: fix various typos in documentation for start_creating start_removing etc NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 02/53] VFS: enhance d_splice_alias() to handle in-lookup dentries NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 03/53] VFS: allow d_alloc_name() to be used with ->d_hash NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 04/53] VFS: use global wait-queue table for d_alloc_parallel() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 05/53] VFS: introduce d_alloc_noblock() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 06/53] VFS: add d_duplicate() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 07/53] VFS: Add LOOKUP_SHARED flag NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 08/53] VFS/xfs: drop parent lock across d_alloc_parallel() in d_add_ci() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 09/53] nfs: remove d_drop()/d_alloc_parallel() from nfs_atomic_open() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 10/53] nfs: use d_splice_alias() in nfs_link() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 11/53] nfs: don't d_drop() before d_splice_alias() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:11 ` [PATCH 12/53] nfs: don't d_drop() before d_splice_alias() in atomic_create NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 13/53] nfs: Use d_alloc_noblock() in nfs_prime_dcache() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 14/53] nfs: use d_alloc_noblock() in silly-rename NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 15/53] nfs: use d_duplicate() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 16/53] ovl: drop dir lock for lookups in impure readdir NeilBrown
2026-03-15 13:51 ` Amir Goldstein
2026-03-18 21:10 ` NeilBrown
2026-03-20 14:47 ` Amir Goldstein
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 17/53] coda: don't d_drop() early NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 18/53] shmem: use d_duplicate() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 19/53] afs: use d_time instead of d_fsdata NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 21/53] afs: use d_splice_alias() in afs_vnode_new_inode() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 22/53] afs: use d_alloc_nonblock in afs_sillyrename() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 23/53] afs: lookup_atsys to drop and reclaim lock NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 24/53] afs: use d_duplicate() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 25/53] smb/client: use d_time to store a timestamp in dentry, not d_fsdata NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 26/53] smb/client: don't unhashed and rehash to prevent new opens NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 27/53] smb/client: use d_splice_alias() in atomic_open NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 28/53] smb/client: Use d_alloc_noblock() in cifs_prime_dcache() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 29/53] exfat: simplify exfat_lookup() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 30/53] configfs: remove d_add() calls before configfs_attach_group() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 31/53] configfs: stop using d_add() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 32/53] ext4: move dcache modifying code out of __ext4_link() NeilBrown
2026-03-17 10:00 ` Jan Kara
2026-03-17 20:27 ` [PATCH 32/53f] " NeilBrown
2026-03-18 17:47 ` Jan Kara
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 33/53] ext4: use on-stack dentries in ext4_fc_replay_link_internal() NeilBrown
2026-03-17 9:37 ` Jan Kara
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 34/53] tracefs: stop using d_add() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 35/53] cephfs: " NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 36/53] cephfs: remove d_alloc from CEPH_MDS_OP_LOOKUPNAME handling in ceph_fill_trace() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 37/53] cephfs: Use d_alloc_noblock() in ceph_readdir_prepopulate() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 38/53] cephfs: Don't d_drop() before d_splice_alias() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 39/53] ecryptfs: stop using d_add() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 40/53] gfs2: " NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 41/53] libfs: " NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 42/53] fuse: don't d_drop() before d_splice_alias() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 43/53] fuse: Use d_alloc_noblock() in fuse_direntplus_link() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 44/53] hostfs: don't d_drop() before d_splice_alias() in hostfs_mkdir() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 45/53] efivarfs: use d_alloc_name() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 46/53] Remove references to d_add() in documentation and comments NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 47/53] VFS: make d_alloc() local to VFS NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 48/53] VFS: remove d_add() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 49/53] VFS: remove d_rehash() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 50/53] VFS: remove lookup_one() and lookup_noperm() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 51/53] VFS: use d_alloc_parallel() in lookup_one_qstr_excl() NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 52/53] VFS: lift d_alloc_parallel above inode_lock NeilBrown
2026-03-12 21:12 ` [PATCH 53/53] VFS: remove LOOKUP_SHARED NeilBrown
2026-03-12 23:38 ` [PATCH RFC 00/53] lift lookup out of exclive lock for dir ops Steven Rostedt
2026-03-13 0:18 ` NeilBrown
2026-03-12 23:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2026-03-13 0:09 ` NeilBrown
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