NFSD: Instantiate a struct file when creating a regular NFSv4 file

There have been reports of races that cause NFSv4 OPEN(CREATE) to
return an error even though the requested file was created. NFSv4
does not provide a status code for this case.

To mitigate some of these problems, reorganize the NFSv4
OPEN(CREATE) logic to allocate resources before the file is actually
created, and open the new file while the parent directory is still
locked.

Two new APIs are added:

+ Add an API that works like nfsd_file_acquire() but does not open
the underlying file. The OPEN(CREATE) path can use this API when it
already has an open file.

+ Add an API that is kin to dentry_open(). NFSD needs to create a
file and grab an open "struct file *" atomically. The
alloc_empty_file() has to be done before the inode create. If it
fails (for example, because the NFS server has exceeded its
max_files limit), we avoid creating the file and can still return
an error to the NFS client.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Tested-by: JianHong Yin <jiyin@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.h b/fs/nfsd/filecache.h
index 435ceab27897..1da0c79a5580 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.h
+++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.h
@@ -59,5 +59,7 @@ void nfsd_file_close_inode_sync(struct inode *inode);
 bool nfsd_file_is_cached(struct inode *inode);
 __be32 nfsd_file_acquire(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
 		  unsigned int may_flags, struct nfsd_file **nfp);
+__be32 nfsd_file_create(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
+		  unsigned int may_flags, struct nfsd_file **nfp);
 int	nfsd_file_cache_stats_open(struct inode *, struct file *);
 #endif /* _FS_NFSD_FILECACHE_H */