Directory xattr znodes hold a reference on their parent

Unlike normal file or directory znodes, an xattr znode is
guaranteed to only have a single parent.  Therefore, we can
take a refernce on that parent if it is provided at create
time and cache it.  Additionally, we take care to cache it
on any subsequent zfs_zaccess() where the parent is provided
as an optimization.

This allows us to avoid needing to do a zfs_zget() when
setting up the SELinux security xattr in the create path.
This is critical because a hash lookup on the directory
will deadlock since it is locked.

The zpl_xattr_security_init() call has also been moved up
to the zpl layer to ensure TXs to create the required
xattrs are performed after the create TX.  Otherwise we
run the risk of deadlocking on the open create TX.

Ideally the security xattr should be fully constructed
before the new inode is unlocked.  However, doing so would
require far more extensive changes to ZFS.

This change may also have the benefitial side effect of
ensuring xattr directory znodes are evicted from the cache
before normal file or directory znodes due to the extra
reference.

Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Closes #671
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Brian Behlendorf
2012-11-29 16:10:03 -08:00
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@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ typedef struct znode {
zfs_acl_t *z_acl_cached; /* cached acl */
krwlock_t z_xattr_lock; /* xattr data lock */
nvlist_t *z_xattr_cached;/* cached xattrs */
struct znode *z_xattr_parent;/* xattr parent znode */
list_node_t z_link_node; /* all znodes in fs link */
sa_handle_t *z_sa_hdl; /* handle to sa data */
boolean_t z_is_sa; /* are we native sa? */