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Commit 7c6c5249 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Trond Myklebust
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NFS: add atomic_open for NFSv3 to handle O_TRUNC correctly.



With two clients, each with NFSv3 mounts of the same directory, the sequence:

   client1            client2
  ls -l afile
                      echo hello there > afile
  echo HELLO > afile
  cat afile

will show
   HELLO
   there

because the O_TRUNC requested in the final 'echo' doesn't take effect.
This is because the "Negative dentry, just create a file" section in
lookup_open() assumes that the file *does* get created since the dentry
was negative, so it sets FMODE_CREATED, and this causes do_open() to
clear O_TRUNC and so the file doesn't get truncated.

Even mounting with -o lookupcache=none does not help as
nfs_neg_need_reval() always returns false if LOOKUP_CREATE is set.

This patch fixes the problem by providing an atomic_open inode operation
for NFSv3 (and v2).  The code is largely the code from the branch in
lookup_open() when atomic_open is not provided.  The significant change
is that the O_TRUNC flag is passed a new nfs_do_create() which add
'trunc' handling to nfs_create().

With this change we also optimise away an unnecessary LOOKUP before the
file is created.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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