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Zach Brown 15d7eec1f9 Disallow openening unlinked files by handle
Our open by handle functions didn't care that the inode wasn't
referenced and let tasks open unlinked inodes by number.  This
interacted badly with the inode deletion mechanisms which required that
inodes couldn't be cached on other nodes after the transaction which
removed their final reference.

If a task did accidentally open a file by inode while it was being
deleted it could see the inode items in an inconsistent state and return
very confusing errors that look like corruption.

The fix is to give the handle iget callers a flag to tell iget to only
get the inode if it has a positive nlink.   If iget sees that the inode
has been unlinked it returns enoent.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zab@versity.com>
2022-01-24 09:40:08 -08:00
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