After commit d202cce896, an expired cache_head can be removed from the
cache_detail's hash.
However, the expired cache_head may be waiting for a reply from a
previously submitted request. Such a cache_head has an increased
refcounter and therefore it won't be freed after cache_put(freeme).
Because the cache_head was removed from the hash it cannot be found
during cache_clean() and can be leaked forever, together with stalled
cache_request and other taken resources.
In our case we noticed it because an entry in the export cache was
holding a reference on a filesystem.
Fixes d202cce896 ("sunrpc: never return expired entries in sunrpc_cache_lookup")
Cc: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 2.6.35
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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