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<title>afs: Fix afs_dynroot_readdir() to not use the RCU read lock</title>
<updated>2025-04-11T13:24:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-08T20:46:29+00:00</published>
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afs_dynroot_readdir() uses the RCU read lock to walk the cell list whilst
emitting cell automount entries - but dir_emit() may write to a userspace
buffer, thereby causing a fault to occur and waits to happen.

Fix afs_dynroot_readdir() to get a shared lock on net-&gt;cells_lock instead.

This can be triggered by enabling lockdep, preconfiguring a number of
cells, doing "mount -t afs none /afs -o dyn" (or using the kafs-client
package with afs.mount systemd unit enabled) and then doing "ls /afs".

Fixes: 1d0b929fc070 ("afs: Change dynroot to create contents on demand")
Reported-by: syzbot+3b6c5c6a1d0119b687a1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+8245611446194a52150d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+1aa62e6852a6ad1c7944@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+54e6c2176ba76c56217e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/1638014.1744145189@warthog.procyon.org.uk
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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afs_dynroot_readdir() uses the RCU read lock to walk the cell list whilst
emitting cell automount entries - but dir_emit() may write to a userspace
buffer, thereby causing a fault to occur and waits to happen.

Fix afs_dynroot_readdir() to get a shared lock on net-&gt;cells_lock instead.

This can be triggered by enabling lockdep, preconfiguring a number of
cells, doing "mount -t afs none /afs -o dyn" (or using the kafs-client
package with afs.mount systemd unit enabled) and then doing "ls /afs".

Fixes: 1d0b929fc070 ("afs: Change dynroot to create contents on demand")
Reported-by: syzbot+3b6c5c6a1d0119b687a1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+8245611446194a52150d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+1aa62e6852a6ad1c7944@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+54e6c2176ba76c56217e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/1638014.1744145189@warthog.procyon.org.uk
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()</title>
<updated>2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-05T08:17:26+00:00</published>
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timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.afs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-03-24T20:15:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-24T20:15:16+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs afs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the work for afs for this cycle:

   - Fix an occasional hang that's only really encountered when
     rmmod'ing the kafs module

   - Remove the "-o autocell" mount option. This is obsolete with the
     dynamic root and removing it makes the next patch slightly easier

   - Change how the dynamic root mount is constructed. Currently, the
     root directory is (de)populated when it is (un)mounted if there are
     cells already configured and, further, pairs of automount points
     have to be created/removed each time a cell is added/deleted

     This is changed so that readdir on the root dir lists all the known
     cell automount pairs plus the @cell symlinks and the inodes and
     dentries are constructed by lookup on demand. This simplifies the
     cell management code

   - A few improvements to the afs_volume and afs_server tracepoints

   - Pass trace info into the afs_lookup_cell() function to allow the
     trace log to indicate the purpose of the lookup

   - Remove the 'net' parameter from afs_unuse_cell() as it's
     superfluous

   - In rxrpc, allow a kernel app (such as kafs) to store a word of
     information on rxrpc_peer records

   - Use the information stored on the rxrpc_peer record to point to the
     afs_server record. This allows the server address lookup to be done
     away with

   - Simplify the afs_server ref/activity accounting to make each one
     self-contained and not garbage collected from the cell management
     work item

   - Simplify the afs_cell ref/activity accounting to make each one of
     these also self-contained and not driven by a central management
     work item

     The current code was intended to make it such that a single timer
     for the namespace and one work item per cell could do all the work
     required to maintain these records. This, however, made for some
     sequencing problems when cleaning up these records. Further, the
     attempt to pass refs along with timers and work items made getting
     it right rather tricky when the timer or work item already had a
     ref attached and now a ref had to be got rid of"

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.afs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  afs: Simplify cell record handling
  afs: Fix afs_server ref accounting
  afs: Use the per-peer app data provided by rxrpc
  rxrpc: Allow the app to store private data on peer structs
  afs: Drop the net parameter from afs_unuse_cell()
  afs: Make afs_lookup_cell() take a trace note
  afs: Improve server refcount/active count tracing
  afs: Improve afs_volume tracing to display a debug ID
  afs: Change dynroot to create contents on demand
  afs: Remove the "autocell" mount option
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Pull vfs afs updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the work for afs for this cycle:

   - Fix an occasional hang that's only really encountered when
     rmmod'ing the kafs module

   - Remove the "-o autocell" mount option. This is obsolete with the
     dynamic root and removing it makes the next patch slightly easier

   - Change how the dynamic root mount is constructed. Currently, the
     root directory is (de)populated when it is (un)mounted if there are
     cells already configured and, further, pairs of automount points
     have to be created/removed each time a cell is added/deleted

     This is changed so that readdir on the root dir lists all the known
     cell automount pairs plus the @cell symlinks and the inodes and
     dentries are constructed by lookup on demand. This simplifies the
     cell management code

   - A few improvements to the afs_volume and afs_server tracepoints

   - Pass trace info into the afs_lookup_cell() function to allow the
     trace log to indicate the purpose of the lookup

   - Remove the 'net' parameter from afs_unuse_cell() as it's
     superfluous

   - In rxrpc, allow a kernel app (such as kafs) to store a word of
     information on rxrpc_peer records

   - Use the information stored on the rxrpc_peer record to point to the
     afs_server record. This allows the server address lookup to be done
     away with

   - Simplify the afs_server ref/activity accounting to make each one
     self-contained and not garbage collected from the cell management
     work item

   - Simplify the afs_cell ref/activity accounting to make each one of
     these also self-contained and not driven by a central management
     work item

     The current code was intended to make it such that a single timer
     for the namespace and one work item per cell could do all the work
     required to maintain these records. This, however, made for some
     sequencing problems when cleaning up these records. Further, the
     attempt to pass refs along with timers and work items made getting
     it right rather tricky when the timer or work item already had a
     ref attached and now a ref had to be got rid of"

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.afs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  afs: Simplify cell record handling
  afs: Fix afs_server ref accounting
  afs: Use the per-peer app data provided by rxrpc
  rxrpc: Allow the app to store private data on peer structs
  afs: Drop the net parameter from afs_unuse_cell()
  afs: Make afs_lookup_cell() take a trace note
  afs: Improve server refcount/active count tracing
  afs: Improve afs_volume tracing to display a debug ID
  afs: Change dynroot to create contents on demand
  afs: Remove the "autocell" mount option
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-03-24T17:47:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-24T17:47:14+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs async dir updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains cleanups that fell out of the work from async directory
  handling:

   - Change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return
     a negative dentry. This simplifies the usability of these helpers
     in various places

   - Drop d_exact_alias() from the remaining place in NFS where it is
     still used. This also allows us to drop the d_exact_alias() helper
     completely

   - Drop an unnecessary call to fh_update() from nfsd_create_locked()

   - Change i_op-&gt;mkdir() to return a struct dentry

     Change vfs_mkdir() to return a dentry provided by the filesystems
     which is hashed and positive. This allows us to reduce the number
     of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to very few
     cases. The code in these places becomes simpler and easier to
     understand.

   - Repack DENTRY_* and LOOKUP_* flags"

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  doc: fix inline emphasis warning
  VFS: Change vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry.
  nfs: change mkdir inode_operation to return alternate dentry if needed.
  fuse: return correct dentry for -&gt;mkdir
  ceph: return the correct dentry on mkdir
  hostfs: store inode in dentry after mkdir if possible.
  Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
  nfsd: drop fh_update() from S_IFDIR branch of nfsd_create_locked()
  nfs/vfs: discard d_exact_alias()
  VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl()
  VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry
  VFS: repack LOOKUP_ bit flags.
  VFS: repack DENTRY_ flags.
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Pull vfs async dir updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains cleanups that fell out of the work from async directory
  handling:

   - Change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return
     a negative dentry. This simplifies the usability of these helpers
     in various places

   - Drop d_exact_alias() from the remaining place in NFS where it is
     still used. This also allows us to drop the d_exact_alias() helper
     completely

   - Drop an unnecessary call to fh_update() from nfsd_create_locked()

   - Change i_op-&gt;mkdir() to return a struct dentry

     Change vfs_mkdir() to return a dentry provided by the filesystems
     which is hashed and positive. This allows us to reduce the number
     of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to very few
     cases. The code in these places becomes simpler and easier to
     understand.

   - Repack DENTRY_* and LOOKUP_* flags"

* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  doc: fix inline emphasis warning
  VFS: Change vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry.
  nfs: change mkdir inode_operation to return alternate dentry if needed.
  fuse: return correct dentry for -&gt;mkdir
  ceph: return the correct dentry on mkdir
  hostfs: store inode in dentry after mkdir if possible.
  Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
  nfsd: drop fh_update() from S_IFDIR branch of nfsd_create_locked()
  nfs/vfs: discard d_exact_alias()
  VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl()
  VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry
  VFS: repack LOOKUP_ bit flags.
  VFS: repack DENTRY_ flags.
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<entry>
<title>afs: Fix afs_atcell_get_link() to check if ws_cell is unset first</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T08:23:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-18T11:20:19+00:00</published>
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Fix afs_atcell_get_link() to check if the workstation cell is unset before
doing the RCU pathwalk bit where we dereference that.

Fixes: 823869e1e616 ("afs: Fix afs_atcell_get_link() to handle RCU pathwalk")
Reported-by: syzbot+76a6f18e3af82e84f264@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2481796.1742296819@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Tested-by: syzbot+76a6f18e3af82e84f264@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Fix afs_atcell_get_link() to check if the workstation cell is unset before
doing the RCU pathwalk bit where we dereference that.

Fixes: 823869e1e616 ("afs: Fix afs_atcell_get_link() to handle RCU pathwalk")
Reported-by: syzbot+76a6f18e3af82e84f264@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2481796.1742296819@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Tested-by: syzbot+76a6f18e3af82e84f264@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>afs: Simplify cell record handling</title>
<updated>2025-03-10T09:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-24T16:06:03+00:00</published>
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Simplify afs_cell record handling to avoid very occasional races that cause
module removal to hang (it waits for all cell records to be removed).

There are two things that particularly contribute to the difficulty:
firstly, the code tries to pass a ref on the cell to the cell's maintenance
work item (which gets awkward if the work item is already queued); and,
secondly, there's an overall cell manager that tries to use just one timer
for the entire cell collection (to avoid having loads of timers).  However,
both of these are probably unnecessarily restrictive.

To simplify this, the following changes are made:

 (1) The cell record collection manager is removed.  Each cell record
     manages itself individually.

 (2) Each afs_cell is given a second work item (cell-&gt;destroyer) that is
     queued when its refcount reaches zero.  This is not done in the
     context of the putting thread as it might be in an inconvenient place
     to sleep.

 (3) Each afs_cell is given its own timer.  The timer is used to expire the
     cell record after a period of unuse if not otherwise pinned and can
     also be used for other maintenance tasks if necessary (of which there
     are currently none as DNS refresh is triggered by filesystem
     operations).

 (4) The afs_cell manager work item (cell-&gt;manager) is no longer given a
     ref on the cell when queued; rather, the manager must be deleted.
     This does away with the need to deal with the consequences of losing a
     race to queue cell-&gt;manager.  Clean up of extra queuing is deferred to
     the destroyer.

 (5) The cell destroyer work item makes sure the cell timer is removed and
     that the normal cell work is cancelled before farming the actual
     destruction off to RCU.

 (6) When a network namespace is destroyed or the kafs module is unloaded,
     it's now a simple matter of marking the namespace as dead then just
     waking up all the cell work items.  They will then remove and destroy
     themselves once all remaining activity counts and/or a ref counts are
     dropped.  This makes sure that all server records are dropped first.

 (7) The cell record state set is reduced to just four states: SETTING_UP,
     ACTIVE, REMOVING and DEAD.  The record persists in the active state
     even when it's not being used until the time comes to remove it rather
     than downgrading it to an inactive state from whence it can be
     restored.

     This means that the cell still appears in /proc and /afs when not in
     use until it switches to the REMOVING state - at which point it is
     removed.

     Note that the REMOVING state is included so that someone wanting to
     resurrect the cell record is forced to wait whilst the cell is torn
     down in that state.  Once it's in the DEAD state, it has been removed
     from net-&gt;cells tree and is no longer findable and can be replaced.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-16-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-12-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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Simplify afs_cell record handling to avoid very occasional races that cause
module removal to hang (it waits for all cell records to be removed).

There are two things that particularly contribute to the difficulty:
firstly, the code tries to pass a ref on the cell to the cell's maintenance
work item (which gets awkward if the work item is already queued); and,
secondly, there's an overall cell manager that tries to use just one timer
for the entire cell collection (to avoid having loads of timers).  However,
both of these are probably unnecessarily restrictive.

To simplify this, the following changes are made:

 (1) The cell record collection manager is removed.  Each cell record
     manages itself individually.

 (2) Each afs_cell is given a second work item (cell-&gt;destroyer) that is
     queued when its refcount reaches zero.  This is not done in the
     context of the putting thread as it might be in an inconvenient place
     to sleep.

 (3) Each afs_cell is given its own timer.  The timer is used to expire the
     cell record after a period of unuse if not otherwise pinned and can
     also be used for other maintenance tasks if necessary (of which there
     are currently none as DNS refresh is triggered by filesystem
     operations).

 (4) The afs_cell manager work item (cell-&gt;manager) is no longer given a
     ref on the cell when queued; rather, the manager must be deleted.
     This does away with the need to deal with the consequences of losing a
     race to queue cell-&gt;manager.  Clean up of extra queuing is deferred to
     the destroyer.

 (5) The cell destroyer work item makes sure the cell timer is removed and
     that the normal cell work is cancelled before farming the actual
     destruction off to RCU.

 (6) When a network namespace is destroyed or the kafs module is unloaded,
     it's now a simple matter of marking the namespace as dead then just
     waking up all the cell work items.  They will then remove and destroy
     themselves once all remaining activity counts and/or a ref counts are
     dropped.  This makes sure that all server records are dropped first.

 (7) The cell record state set is reduced to just four states: SETTING_UP,
     ACTIVE, REMOVING and DEAD.  The record persists in the active state
     even when it's not being used until the time comes to remove it rather
     than downgrading it to an inactive state from whence it can be
     restored.

     This means that the cell still appears in /proc and /afs when not in
     use until it switches to the REMOVING state - at which point it is
     removed.

     Note that the REMOVING state is included so that someone wanting to
     resurrect the cell record is forced to wait whilst the cell is torn
     down in that state.  Once it's in the DEAD state, it has been removed
     from net-&gt;cells tree and is no longer findable and can be replaced.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-16-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-12-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>afs: Fix afs_server ref accounting</title>
<updated>2025-03-10T09:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-24T16:51:36+00:00</published>
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The current way that afs_server refs are accounted and cleaned up sometimes
cause rmmod to hang when it is waiting for cell records to be removed.  The
problem is that the cell cleanup might occasionally happen before the
server cleanup and then there's nothing that causes the cell to
garbage-collect the remaining servers as they become inactive.

Partially fix this by:

 (1) Give each afs_server record its own management timer that rather than
     relying on the cell manager's central timer to drive each individual
     cell's maintenance work item to garbage collect servers.

     This timer is set when afs_unuse_server() reduces a server's activity
     count to zero and will schedule the server's destroyer work item upon
     firing.

 (2) Give each afs_server record its own destroyer work item that removes
     the record from the cell's database, shuts down the timer, cancels any
     pending work for itself, sends an RPC to the server to cancel
     outstanding callbacks.

     This change, in combination with the timer, obviates the need to try
     and coordinate so closely between the cell record and a bunch of other
     server records to try and tear everything down in a coordinated
     fashion.  With this, the cell record is pinned until the server RCU is
     complete and namespace/module removal will wait until all the cell
     records are removed.

 (3) Now that incoming calls are mapped to servers (and thus cells) using
     data attached to an rxrpc_peer, the UUID-to-server mapping tree is
     moved from the namespace to the cell (cell-&gt;fs_servers).  This means
     there can no longer be duplicates therein - and that allows the
     mapping tree to be simpler as there doesn't need to be a chain of
     same-UUID servers that are in different cells.

 (4) The lock protecting the UUID mapping tree is switched to an
     rw_semaphore on the cell rather than a seqlock on the namespace as
     it's now only used during mounting in contexts in which we're allowed
     to sleep.

 (5) When it comes time for a cell that is being removed to purge its set
     of servers, it just needs to iterate over them and wake them up.  Once
     a server becomes inactive, its destroyer work item will observe the
     state of the cell and immediately remove that record.

 (6) When a server record is removed, it is marked AFS_SERVER_FL_EXPIRED to
     prevent reattempts at removal.  The record will be dispatched to RCU
     for destruction once its refcount reaches 0.

 (7) The AFS_SERVER_FL_UNCREATED/CREATING flags are used to synchronise
     simultaneous creation attempts.  If one attempt fails, it will abandon
     the attempt and allow another to try again.

     Note that the record can't just be abandoned when dead as it's bound
     into a server list attached to a volume and only subject to
     replacement if the server list obtained for the volume from the VLDB
     changes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-15-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-11-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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The current way that afs_server refs are accounted and cleaned up sometimes
cause rmmod to hang when it is waiting for cell records to be removed.  The
problem is that the cell cleanup might occasionally happen before the
server cleanup and then there's nothing that causes the cell to
garbage-collect the remaining servers as they become inactive.

Partially fix this by:

 (1) Give each afs_server record its own management timer that rather than
     relying on the cell manager's central timer to drive each individual
     cell's maintenance work item to garbage collect servers.

     This timer is set when afs_unuse_server() reduces a server's activity
     count to zero and will schedule the server's destroyer work item upon
     firing.

 (2) Give each afs_server record its own destroyer work item that removes
     the record from the cell's database, shuts down the timer, cancels any
     pending work for itself, sends an RPC to the server to cancel
     outstanding callbacks.

     This change, in combination with the timer, obviates the need to try
     and coordinate so closely between the cell record and a bunch of other
     server records to try and tear everything down in a coordinated
     fashion.  With this, the cell record is pinned until the server RCU is
     complete and namespace/module removal will wait until all the cell
     records are removed.

 (3) Now that incoming calls are mapped to servers (and thus cells) using
     data attached to an rxrpc_peer, the UUID-to-server mapping tree is
     moved from the namespace to the cell (cell-&gt;fs_servers).  This means
     there can no longer be duplicates therein - and that allows the
     mapping tree to be simpler as there doesn't need to be a chain of
     same-UUID servers that are in different cells.

 (4) The lock protecting the UUID mapping tree is switched to an
     rw_semaphore on the cell rather than a seqlock on the namespace as
     it's now only used during mounting in contexts in which we're allowed
     to sleep.

 (5) When it comes time for a cell that is being removed to purge its set
     of servers, it just needs to iterate over them and wake them up.  Once
     a server becomes inactive, its destroyer work item will observe the
     state of the cell and immediately remove that record.

 (6) When a server record is removed, it is marked AFS_SERVER_FL_EXPIRED to
     prevent reattempts at removal.  The record will be dispatched to RCU
     for destruction once its refcount reaches 0.

 (7) The AFS_SERVER_FL_UNCREATED/CREATING flags are used to synchronise
     simultaneous creation attempts.  If one attempt fails, it will abandon
     the attempt and allow another to try again.

     Note that the record can't just be abandoned when dead as it's bound
     into a server list attached to a volume and only subject to
     replacement if the server list obtained for the volume from the VLDB
     changes.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-15-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-11-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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<title>afs: Use the per-peer app data provided by rxrpc</title>
<updated>2025-03-10T09:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-23T11:01:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=40e8b52fe8c8ab6920ea5f59c5469b6918cce624'/>
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Make use of the per-peer application data that rxrpc now allows the
application to store on the rxrpc_peer struct to hold a back pointer to the
afs_server record that peer represents an endpoint for.

Then, when a call comes in to the AFS cache manager, this can be used to
map it to the correct server record rather than having to use a
UUID-to-server mapping table and having to do an additional lookup.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-14-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-10-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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Make use of the per-peer application data that rxrpc now allows the
application to store on the rxrpc_peer struct to hold a back pointer to the
afs_server record that peer represents an endpoint for.

Then, when a call comes in to the AFS cache manager, this can be used to
map it to the correct server record rather than having to use a
UUID-to-server mapping table and having to do an additional lookup.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-14-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-10-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>afs: Drop the net parameter from afs_unuse_cell()</title>
<updated>2025-03-10T09:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-24T10:54:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=469c82b558628482002e4819d35b7670f0a989fd'/>
<id>469c82b558628482002e4819d35b7670f0a989fd</id>
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Remove the redundant net parameter to afs_unuse_cell() as cell-&gt;net can be
used instead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-12-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-8-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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Remove the redundant net parameter to afs_unuse_cell() as cell-&gt;net can be
used instead.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-12-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-8-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>afs: Make afs_lookup_cell() take a trace note</title>
<updated>2025-03-10T09:47:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-24T10:37:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=92c48157ade88e7a543a64af4a806613fbde2ef3'/>
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Pass a note to be added to the afs_cell tracepoint to afs_lookup_cell() so
that different callers can be distinguished.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-11-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-7-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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Pass a note to be added to the afs_cell tracepoint to afs_lookup_cell() so
that different callers can be distinguished.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Marc Dionne &lt;marc.dionne@auristor.com&gt;
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250224234154.2014840-11-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250310094206.801057-7-dhowells@redhat.com/ # v4
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