Re: [lkp] [nfsd] b44061d0b9: BUG: Dentry ffff880027d7c540{i=1846f,n=0a} still in use (1) [unmount of btrfs vda]

Al Viro
2016-08-11T02:19:29Z

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 02:46:27PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> On 08/10/2016 02:25 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> wrote:
> > > On 08/10/2016 02:06 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > >
> > > > More information in the original email on lkml.
> > >
> > > I'm not subscribed to lkml and for some reason I can't find the original
> > > email in any of the lkml/linux-nfs archives. Could you forward more of the
> > > details?
> >
> > Done.
> >
>
> So my naive fix would be something like this
>
>
> From: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2016 14:43:08 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] nfsd: fix dentry refcounting problem
>
> b44061d0b9 introduced a dentry ref counting bug, previously we were grabbing one
> ref to dchild in nfsd_create(), but with the creation of nfsd_create_locked() we
> have a ref for dchild from the lookup in nfsd_create(), and then another ref in
> nfsd_create_locked(). The ref from the lookup in nfsd_create() is never dropped
> and results in dentries still in use at unmount.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>

[sorry, had been off-line since yesterday]

Patch looks sane; feel free to slap Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
on it. I think it should go through nfsd tree.