If anyone was looking for this, I finally got it pushed...

Along the way I discovered that mdcache_new_entry is double deconstructing
the entry on failure...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Filz [mailto:ffilz...@mindspring.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 2, 2017 5:07 PM
> To: nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nfs-ganesha-devel] I've got a new version of patches to help
with
> unexport races
> 
> While working on this, I discovered some things that need to be done...
> 
> NFS v4 rename and link do not check for xdev...
> 
> I'm not sure that when the NFS v4 SavedFH is cleaned up (either being
> replaced, or released at end of compound) that it is cleaned up with the
> correct op_ctx, will check that and fix if not.
> 
> 9P doesn't check for xdev in rename or link.
> 
> I need to check that 9P sets a proper op_ctx when releasing object
> references (aka LRU references when MDCACHE is involved...).
> 
> Rename isn't prevented from overwriting a junction. This would require
> fsal_rename to do a lookup on the target name (at which point we might as
> well pass the target object if any down to the FSAL for mdcache
> consumption...). If that is protected from overwriting a junction, then
there
> is no risk of having the wrong op_ctx for cleanup.
> 
> Hmm, I also need to make sure that NFS v3 and 9P junction crossing is done
> in a way that is unexport safe...
> 
> This stuff probably didn't cause problems before MDCACHE because cache
> inode entry cleanup wasn't actually dependent on the proper export in
> op_ctx...
> Either that or no one did enough testing...
> 
> Frank
> 
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