Merge tag 'nfs-for-5.17-3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs

Pull NFS client bugfixes from Anna Schumaker:

 - Fix unnecessary changeattr revalidations

 - Fix resolving symlinks during directory lookups

 - Don't report writeback errors in nfs_getattr()

* tag 'nfs-for-5.17-3' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs:
  NFS: Do not report writeback errors in nfs_getattr()
  NFS: LOOKUP_DIRECTORY is also ok with symlinks
  NFS: Remove an incorrect revalidation in nfs4_update_changeattr_locked()

Author: torvalds

fs/nfs/dir.c

@@ -2010,14 +2010,14 @@ int nfs_atomic_open(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 	if (!res) {
 		inode = d_inode(dentry);
 		if ((lookup_flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) && inode &&
-		    !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
+		    !(S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode)))
 			res = ERR_PTR(-ENOTDIR);
 		else if (inode && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
 			res = ERR_PTR(-EOPENSTALE);
 	} else if (!IS_ERR(res)) {
 		inode = d_inode(res);
 		if ((lookup_flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) && inode &&
-		    !S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
+		    !(S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode) || S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))) {
 			dput(res);
 			res = ERR_PTR(-ENOTDIR);
 		} else if (inode && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {

fs/nfs/inode.c

@@ -853,12 +853,9 @@ int nfs_getattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, const struct path *path,
 	}
 
 	/* Flush out writes to the server in order to update c/mtime.  */
-	if ((request_mask & (STATX_CTIME|STATX_MTIME)) &&
-			S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
-		err = filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping);
-		if (err)
-			goto out;
-	}
+	if ((request_mask & (STATX_CTIME | STATX_MTIME)) &&
+	    S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
+		filemap_write_and_wait(inode->i_mapping);
 
 	/*
 	 * We may force a getattr if the user cares about atime.

fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c

@@ -1229,8 +1229,7 @@ nfs4_update_changeattr_locked(struct inode *inode,
 				NFS_INO_INVALID_ACCESS | NFS_INO_INVALID_ACL |
 				NFS_INO_INVALID_SIZE | NFS_INO_INVALID_OTHER |
 				NFS_INO_INVALID_BLOCKS | NFS_INO_INVALID_NLINK |
-				NFS_INO_INVALID_MODE | NFS_INO_INVALID_XATTR |
-				NFS_INO_REVAL_PAGECACHE;
+				NFS_INO_INVALID_MODE | NFS_INO_INVALID_XATTR;
 		nfsi->attrtimeo = NFS_MINATTRTIMEO(inode);
 	}
 	nfsi->attrtimeo_timestamp = jiffies;