Re: [PATCH 4.19 35/98] NFS: Fix regression whereby fscache errors are appearing on nofsc mounts

Trond Myklebust
2019-08-28T12:52:33Z

On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 09:11 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Tue 2019-08-27 09:50:14, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > [ Upstream commit dea1bb35c5f35e0577cfc61f79261d80b8715221 ]
> >
> > People are reporing seeing fscache errors being reported concerning
> > duplicate cookies even in cases where they are not setting up
> > fscache
> > at all. The rule needs to be that if fscache is not enabled, then
> > it
> > should have no side effects at all.
> >
> > To ensure this is the case, we disable fscache completely on all
> > superblocks
> > for which the 'fsc' mount option was not set. In order to avoid
> > issues
> > with '-oremount', we also disable the ability to turn fscache on
> > via
> > remount.
>
> Actually, the code seems to suggest that you disable the ability to
> turn fscache _off_ via remount, too.
>
> Is that intentional?
>

Yes. That is intentional. Otherwise we would have to clear all the
fscache cookies from the inodes.

> Best regards,
> Pavel
>
> > @@ -2239,6 +2239,7 @@ nfs_compare_remount_data(struct nfs_server
> > *nfss,
> > data->acdirmin != nfss->acdirmin / HZ ||
> > data->acdirmax != nfss->acdirmax / HZ ||
> > data->timeo != (10U * nfss->client->cl_timeout->to_initval
> > / HZ) ||
> > + (data->options & NFS_OPTION_FSCACHE) != (nfss->options &
> > NFS_OPTION_FSCACHE) ||
> > data->nfs_server.port != nfss->port ||
> > data->nfs_server.addrlen != nfss->nfs_client->cl_addrlen ||
> > !rpc_cmp_addr((struct sockaddr *)&data->nfs_server.address,
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Trond Myklebust
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