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NFSD: Pin to vfsmount instead of mntget for export cache

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Cover letter [PATCH 0/4] NFSD: Pin to vfsmount instead of mntget for export cache

If there are some mount points(not exported for nfs) under pseudo root, after client's operation of those entry under the root, anyone *can't* unmount those mount points until export cache expired.

# cat /etc/exports
/nfs/xfs        *(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
/nfs/pnfs       *(rw,insecure,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash)
# ll /nfs/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 84 Apr 21 22:27 pnfs
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 84 Apr 21 22:27 test
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root  6 Apr 20 22:01 xfs
# mount /dev/sde /nfs/test
# df
Filesystem                      1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
......
/dev/sdd                          1038336   32944   1005392   4% /nfs/pnfs
/dev/sdc                         10475520   32928  10442592   1% /nfs/xfs
/dev/sde                           999320    1284    929224   1% /nfs/test
# mount -t nfs 127.0.0.1:/nfs/ /mnt
# ll /mnt/*/
/mnt/pnfs/:
total 0
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 0 Apr 21 22:23 attr
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 6 Apr 21 22:19 tmp

/mnt/xfs/:
total 0

# umount /nfs/test/
umount: /nfs/test/: target is busy
        (In some cases useful info about processes that
         use the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1).)

I don't think that's user expect, they want umount /nfs/test/.

It's caused by exports cache of nfsd holds the reference of the path (here is /nfs/test/), so, it can't be umounted.

The patch site using fs_pin instead of mntget for export cache, user at nfs server can unmount any mount points includes exported for nfs. Maybe, only umounted for unexported mount points is better?

[PATCH 1/4] fs_pin: Fix uninitialized value in fs_pin [PATCH 2/4] fs_pin: Export functions for specific filesystem [PATCH 3/4] sunrpc: New helper cache_force_expire for cache cleanup [PATCH 4/4] nfsd: Pin to vfsmnt instead of mntget

Kinglong Mee (4):
fs_pin: initialize done to zero
fs_pin: export functions for nactive filesystem
sunrpc: new helper cache_force_expire for deleting a cache
nfsd: pin to mnt insteads mntget

 fs/fs_pin.c                  |  3 +++
 fs/nfsd/export.c             | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 fs/nfsd/export.h             | 10 +++++++++-
 include/linux/fs_pin.h       |  1 +
 include/linux/sunrpc/cache.h | 11 +++++++++++
 5 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
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