5.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit b680cb9b737331aad271feebbedafb865504e234 ]
David Howells mentioned that he found this bit of code confusing, so sprinkle in some comments to clarify.
Reported-by: David Howells dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton jlayton@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever chuck.lever@oracle.com --- fs/nfsd/filecache.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c index 43bb2fd47cf58..faa0c7d0253eb 100644 --- a/fs/nfsd/filecache.c +++ b/fs/nfsd/filecache.c @@ -1093,6 +1093,11 @@ nfsd_file_do_acquire(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, rcu_read_unlock();
if (nf) { + /* + * If the nf is on the LRU then it holds an extra reference + * that must be put if it's removed. It had better not be + * the last one however, since we should hold another. + */ if (nfsd_file_lru_remove(nf)) WARN_ON_ONCE(refcount_dec_and_test(&nf->nf_ref)); goto wait_for_construction;