From: Luis Henriques <luis@igalia.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Matt Harvey <mharvey@jumptrading.com>,
kernel-dev@igalia.com, Luis Henriques <luis@igalia.com>
Subject: [PATCH] fuse: fix race between inode/dentry invalidation and readdir
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:49:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260424134935.16161-1-luis@igalia.com> (raw)
When there's a readdir in progress, doing a FUSE_NOTIFY_INVAL_{INODE,ENTRY}
on an inode or dentry may result in stale directory info being cached. This
is because the invalidation does not reset the readdir cache.
This patch fixes this issue by adding a call to fuse_rdc_reset() (modified
to include the required locking) to these two operations, allowing the
readdir cache to be invalidated while it's being filled-in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-5
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis@igalia.com>
---
fs/fuse/dir.c | 5 +++--
fs/fuse/fuse_i.h | 13 +++++++++++++
fs/fuse/inode.c | 1 +
fs/fuse/readdir.c | 6 +++---
4 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
index 7ac6b232ef12..6e5851de3613 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -1615,6 +1615,7 @@ int fuse_reverse_inval_entry(struct fuse_conn *fc, u64 parent_nodeid,
if (!(flags & FUSE_EXPIRE_ONLY))
d_invalidate(entry);
fuse_invalidate_entry_cache(entry);
+ fuse_rdc_reset(entry->d_inode);
if (child_nodeid != 0) {
inode_lock(d_inode(entry));
@@ -1637,7 +1638,7 @@ int fuse_reverse_inval_entry(struct fuse_conn *fc, u64 parent_nodeid,
dont_mount(entry);
clear_nlink(d_inode(entry));
err = 0;
- badentry:
+badentry:
inode_unlock(d_inode(entry));
if (!err)
d_delete(entry);
@@ -1646,7 +1647,7 @@ int fuse_reverse_inval_entry(struct fuse_conn *fc, u64 parent_nodeid,
}
end_removing(entry);
- put_parent:
+put_parent:
dput(dir);
iput(parent);
return err;
diff --git a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
index 7f16049387d1..0f31065f8046 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
+++ b/fs/fuse/fuse_i.h
@@ -1494,6 +1494,19 @@ int fuse_set_acl(struct mnt_idmap *, struct dentry *dentry,
/* readdir.c */
int fuse_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx);
+void __fuse_rdc_reset(struct inode *inode);
+
+static inline void fuse_rdc_reset(struct inode *inode)
+{
+ struct fuse_inode *fi;
+
+ if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
+ fi = get_fuse_inode(inode);
+ spin_lock(&fi->rdc.lock);
+ __fuse_rdc_reset(inode);
+ spin_unlock(&fi->rdc.lock);
+ }
+}
/**
* Return the number of bytes in an arguments list
diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index c795abe47a4f..4d8220f573f2 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -570,6 +570,7 @@ int fuse_reverse_inval_inode(struct fuse_conn *fc, u64 nodeid,
fi->attr_version = atomic64_inc_return(&fc->attr_version);
spin_unlock(&fi->lock);
+ fuse_rdc_reset(inode);
fuse_invalidate_attr(inode);
forget_all_cached_acls(inode);
if (offset >= 0) {
diff --git a/fs/fuse/readdir.c b/fs/fuse/readdir.c
index c2aae2eef086..e7e1f051e45c 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/readdir.c
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ static enum fuse_parse_result fuse_parse_cache(struct fuse_file *ff,
return res;
}
-static void fuse_rdc_reset(struct inode *inode)
+void __fuse_rdc_reset(struct inode *inode)
{
struct fuse_inode *fi = get_fuse_inode(inode);
@@ -493,7 +493,7 @@ static int fuse_readdir_cached(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
if (inode_peek_iversion(inode) != fi->rdc.iversion ||
!timespec64_equal(&fi->rdc.mtime, &mtime)) {
- fuse_rdc_reset(inode);
+ __fuse_rdc_reset(inode);
goto retry_locked;
}
}
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@ static int fuse_readdir_cached(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
* Uh-oh: page gone missing, cache is useless
*/
if (fi->rdc.version == ff->readdir.version)
- fuse_rdc_reset(inode);
+ __fuse_rdc_reset(inode);
goto retry_locked;
}
next reply other threads:[~2026-04-24 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-24 13:49 Luis Henriques [this message]
2026-04-24 19:35 ` [PATCH] fuse: fix race between inode/dentry invalidation and readdir Joanne Koong
2026-04-27 9:23 ` Luis Henriques
2026-04-27 12:48 ` Joanne Koong
2026-04-27 17:06 ` Luis Henriques
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