On asynchronous base filesystems like NFS, eCryptFS leaves inodes for
deleted files in the cache until unmounting. Change call in
ecryptfs_do_unlink() from set_nlink() to drop_nlink() in order to reliably
evict inodes from the cache even on top of NFS.
Signed-off-by: Dan Robertson <daniel.robert...@starlab.io>
Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Mitchell <jeffrey.mitch...@starlab.io>
---
fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
index e23752d..f7594b6 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static int ecryptfs_do_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct
dentry *dentry,
goto out_unlock;
}
fsstack_copy_attr_times(dir, lower_dir_inode);
- set_nlink(inode, ecryptfs_inode_to_lower(inode)->i_nlink);
+ drop_nlink(inode);
inode->i_ctime = dir->i_ctime;
out_unlock:
dput(lower_dentry);
--
2.7.4
