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Commit 3f8f2548 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Trond Myklebust
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NFSv4: ensure __nfs4_find_lock_state returns consistent result.



If a file has both flock locks and OFD locks, then it is possible that
two different nfs4 lock states could apply to file accesses from a
single process.

It is not possible to know, efficiently, which one is "correct".
Presumably the state which represents a lock that covers the region
undergoing IO would be the "correct" one to use, but finding that has
a non-trivial cost and would provide miniscule value.

Currently we just return whichever is first in the list, which could
result in inconsistent behaviour if an application ever put it self in
this position.  As consistent behaviour is preferable (when perfectly
correct behaviour is not available), change the search to return a
consistent result in this circumstance.
Specifically: if there is both a flock and OFD lock state, always return
the flock one.

Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
parent cfd278c2
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