Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: Fix inodes not being evicted until unmount

[Tyler Hicks]

On 2020-12-18 13:07:30, Jeffrey Mitchell wrote:
> On asynchronous base filesystems like NFS, eCryptFS leaves inodes for
> deleted files in the cache until unmounting. Change call in
> ecryptfs_do_unlink() from set_nlink() to drop_nlink() in order to reliably
> evict inodes from the cache even on top of NFS.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Robertson <daniel.robertson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Mitchell <jeffrey.mitchell@xxxxxxxxxx>

Hey Jeffrey and Dan - thanks for the patch! Unfortunately, I think this
would allow the eCryptfs inode's nlink count to get out of sync with the
lower inode's nlink count in the case of direct manipulation to the
lower filesystem.

Is the condition that you're trying to fix a result of going through the
this code path?

 ecryptfs_unlink() -> ecryptfs_do_unlink() -> vfs_unlink() -> nfs_unlink() -> nfs_sillyrename() -> nfs_async_unlink()

Tyler

> ---
>  fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
> index e23752d..f7594b6 100644
> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
> @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_do_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
>  		goto out_unlock;
>  	}
>  	fsstack_copy_attr_times(dir, lower_dir_inode);
> -	set_nlink(inode, ecryptfs_inode_to_lower(inode)->i_nlink);
> +	drop_nlink(inode);
>  	inode->i_ctime = dir->i_ctime;
>  out_unlock:
>  	dput(lower_dentry);
> -- 
> 2.7.4
>