[PATCH 01/26] cifs: Fix duplicate fscache cookie warnings

[Steve French]

Should this be merged independently (and sooner? in rc5?)

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 8:04 AM David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Jeff Layton <jlayton at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > > +struct cifs_fscache_inode_key {
> > > +
> > > +   __le64  uniqueid;       /* server inode number */
> > > +   __le64  createtime;     /* creation time on server */
> > > +   u8      type;           /* S_IFMT file type */
> > > +} __packed;
> > > +
> >
> > Interesting. So the uniqueid of the inode is not unique within the fs?
> > Or are the clients are mounting shares that span multiple filesystems?
> > Or, are we looking at a situation where the uniqueid is being quickly
> > reused for new inodes after the original inode is unlinked?
>
> The problem is that it's not unique over time.  creat(); unlink(); creat();
> may yield a repeat of the uniqueid.  It's like i_ino in that respect.
>
> David
>


-- 
Thanks,

Steve