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Problem: LTP linkat01 test fails on nfs directory (NFS v3) [message #20585] Fri, 21 September 2007 10:16 Go to previous message
gblond is currently offline  gblond
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Registered: May 2007
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Hello.

Tested kernels: 2.6.18, 2.6.22, 2.6.23-rc2

Steps to reproduce: Suppose that we have mounted some directory from nfs v3 
server with default options. Also we  have the two directories in this 
mountpoint and each directory has hard linked file. Try to open those files 
and write to one and read from another. Data will not be equal. (Testcase: 
attached hardlink_test.c)

Analysis: Although these hard linked files have same nfs_fattr::fileid but 
have different nfs_fh fhandle. In this case nfs_find_actor() function 
(fs/nfs/inode.c) returns false during opening each file:

nfs_find_actor()
{
...
	if (nfs_compare_fh(NFS_FH(inode), fh))
		return 0;
...
}

Therefore for each of hard links new struct inode is allocated. It leads to 
cache aliasing.

Please explain why nfs_find_actor() function compares file handles?

-- 
Thanks,
Vitaliy Gusev
 
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