SUNRPC/cache: don't allow invalid entries to be flushed
Trond points out in commit 277f27e2 ("SUNRPC/cache: Allow garbage collection of invalid cache entries") that we allow invalid cache entries to persist indefinitely. That fix, however, reintroduces the problem fixed by Kinglong Mee's commit d6fc8821 ("SUNRPC/Cache: Always treat the invalid cache as unexpired"), where an invalid cache entry is immediately removed by a flush before mountd responds to it. The result is that the server thread that should be waiting for mountd to fill in that entry instead gets an -ETIMEDOUT return from cache_check(). Symptoms are the server becoming unresponsive after a restart, reproduceable by running pynfs 4.1 test REBT5. Instead, take a compromise approach: allow invalid cache entries to be removed after they expire, but not to be removed by a cache flush. Fixes: 277f27e2 ("SUNRPC/cache: Allow garbage collection ... ") Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
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