As long as a symlink inode remains in-core, the destination (and therefore size) will not be re-fetched from the server, as it cannot change. The original implementation of the attribute cache assumed that setting the expiry time in the past was sufficient to cause a re-fetch of all attributes on the next getattr. That does not work in this case.

The bug manifested itself as follows. When the command sequence

touch foo; ln -s foo bar; ls -l bar

is run, the output was

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 fedora fedora 4906 Apr 24 19:10 bar -> foo

However, after a re-mount, ls -l bar produces

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 fedora fedora 3 Apr 24 19:10 bar -> foo

After this commit, even before a re-mount, the output is

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 fedora fedora 3 Apr 24 19:10 bar -> foo

Reported-by: Becky Ligon ligon@clemson.edu Signed-off-by: Martin Brandenburg martin@omnibond.com Fixes: 71680c18c8f2 ("orangefs: Cache getattr results.") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: hubcap@omnibond.com --- fs/orangefs/namei.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/orangefs/namei.c b/fs/orangefs/namei.c index 6e3134e6d98a..bfc4b1028701 100644 --- a/fs/orangefs/namei.c +++ b/fs/orangefs/namei.c @@ -327,6 +327,13 @@ static int orangefs_symlink(struct inode *dir, ret = PTR_ERR(inode); goto out; } + /* + * This is necessary because orangefs_inode_getattr will not + * re-read symlink size as it is impossible for it to change. + * Invalidating the cache does not help. orangefs_new_inode + * does not set the correct size (it does not know symname). + */ + inode->i_size = strlen(symname);

gossip_debug(GOSSIP_NAME_DEBUG, "Assigned symlink inode new number of %pU\n",