[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: drop acl cache for directories too

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 06:26:31PM -0700, Wengang Wang wrote:
> ocfs2_data_convert_worker() is currently dropping any cached acl info
> for FILE before down-converting meta lock. It should also drop for DIRECTORY.
> Otherwise the second acl lookup returns the cached one (from VFS layer) which
> could be already stale.
> 
> The problem we are seeing is that the acl changes on one node doesn't get
> refreshed on other nodes in the following case:
> 
>   Node 1                    Node 2
> --------------            ----------------
> getfacl dir1
> 
> 			  getfacl dir1    <-- this is OK
> 
> setfacl -m u:user1:rwX dir1
> getfacl dir1   <-- see the change for user1
> 
> 			  getfacl dir1    <-- can't see change for user1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang at oracle.com>
> ---
>  fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> index 50a863fc1779..207ec61569ea 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c
> @@ -3933,7 +3933,7 @@ static int ocfs2_data_convert_worker(struct ocfs2_lock_res *lockres,
>  		oi = OCFS2_I(inode);
>  		oi->ip_dir_lock_gen++;
>  		mlog(0, "generation: %u\n", oi->ip_dir_lock_gen);
> -		goto out;
> +		goto out_forget;
>  	}
>  
>  	if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
> @@ -3964,6 +3964,7 @@ static int ocfs2_data_convert_worker(struct ocfs2_lock_res *lockres,
>  		filemap_fdatawait(mapping);
>  	}
>  
> +out_forget:
>  	forget_all_cached_acls(inode);
>  
>  out:
> -- 
> 2.21.0 (Apple Git-122.2)
> 

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
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for how to do this properly.

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