NFS: Don't gratuitously clear the inode cache when lookup failed
authorTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Mon, 8 Mar 2021 19:42:52 +0000 (14:42 -0500)
committerAnna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:57:17 +0000 (15:57 -0500)
The fact that the lookup revalidation failed, does not mean that the
inode contents have changed.

Fixes: 5ceb9d7fdaaf ("NFS: Refactor nfs_lookup_revalidate()")
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
fs/nfs/dir.c

index 08b162de627fd46bb85748dc2334380bb695edd0..a91f324cca49f02cedad23cefc42364a2c5346bf 100644 (file)
@@ -1444,18 +1444,14 @@ nfs_lookup_revalidate_done(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
                        __func__, dentry);
                return 1;
        case 0:
-               if (inode && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
-                       /* Purge readdir caches. */
-                       nfs_zap_caches(inode);
-                       /*
-                        * We can't d_drop the root of a disconnected tree:
-                        * its d_hash is on the s_anon list and d_drop() would hide
-                        * it from shrink_dcache_for_unmount(), leading to busy
-                        * inodes on unmount and further oopses.
-                        */
-                       if (IS_ROOT(dentry))
-                               return 1;
-               }
+               /*
+                * We can't d_drop the root of a disconnected tree:
+                * its d_hash is on the s_anon list and d_drop() would hide
+                * it from shrink_dcache_for_unmount(), leading to busy
+                * inodes on unmount and further oopses.
+                */
+               if (inode && IS_ROOT(dentry))
+                       return 1;
                dfprintk(LOOKUPCACHE, "NFS: %s(%pd2) is invalid\n",
                                __func__, dentry);
                return 0;