[PATCH v2 13/13] nfsd: add NFSD_CMD_CACHE_FLUSH netlink command
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Date: 2026-03-25 14:41:13
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linux-nfs, lkml
Subsystem:
filesystems (vfs and infrastructure), kernel nfsd, sunrpc, and lockd servers, networking [general], nfs, sunrpc, and lockd clients, the rest, yaml netlink (ynl) · Maintainers:
Alexander Viro, Christian Brauner, Chuck Lever, Jeff Layton, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Trond Myklebust, Anna Schumaker, Linus Torvalds, Donald Hunter
Add a new NFSD_CMD_CACHE_FLUSH generic netlink command that allows userspace to flush the nfsd export caches (svc_export and expkey) without writing to /proc/net/rpc/*/flush. An optional NFSD_A_CACHE_FLUSH_MASK u32 attribute selects which caches to flush (bit 1 = svc_export, bit 2 = expkey). If the attribute is omitted, all nfsd caches are flushed. This is used by exportfs to replace its /proc-based cache_flush() with a netlink equivalent, with /proc fallback for older kernels. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> --- Documentation/netlink/specs/nfsd.yaml | 17 +++++++++++++++++ fs/nfsd/netlink.c | 12 ++++++++++++ fs/nfsd/netlink.h | 1 + fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ include/uapi/linux/nfsd_netlink.h | 8 ++++++++ 5 files changed, 74 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/netlink/specs/nfsd.yaml b/Documentation/netlink/specs/nfsd.yaml
index ae9563ca58ee0bf7373fd96d7d2253df411316fd..f8ca70178c67d0e4bd074b86d19dcd1514f127ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/netlink/specs/nfsd.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/netlink/specs/nfsd.yaml@@ -305,6 +305,14 @@ attribute-sets: type: nest nested-attributes: expkey multi-attr: true + - + name: cache-flush + attributes: + - + name: mask + type: u32 + enum: cache-type + enum-as-flags: true operations: list:
@@ -450,6 +458,15 @@ operations: request: attributes: - requests + - + name: cache-flush + doc: Flush nfsd caches (svc_export and/or expkey) + attribute-set: cache-flush + flags: [admin-perm] + do: + request: + attributes: + - mask mcast-groups: list:
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/netlink.c b/fs/nfsd/netlink.c
index 394230e250a5b07fa0bb6a5b76f7282758e94565..30c4f8be3df98d8ae98ecddbfac488b5f997ab2f 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/netlink.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/netlink.c@@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ static const struct nla_policy nfsd_expkey_set_reqs_nl_policy[NFSD_A_EXPKEY_REQS [NFSD_A_EXPKEY_REQS_REQUESTS] = NLA_POLICY_NESTED(nfsd_expkey_nl_policy), }; +/* NFSD_CMD_CACHE_FLUSH - do */ +static const struct nla_policy nfsd_cache_flush_nl_policy[NFSD_A_CACHE_FLUSH_MASK + 1] = { + [NFSD_A_CACHE_FLUSH_MASK] = NLA_POLICY_MASK(NLA_U32, 0x3), +}; + /* Ops table for nfsd */ static const struct genl_split_ops nfsd_nl_ops[] = { {
@@ -191,6 +196,13 @@ static const struct genl_split_ops nfsd_nl_ops[] = { .maxattr = NFSD_A_EXPKEY_REQS_REQUESTS, .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM | GENL_CMD_CAP_DO, }, + { + .cmd = NFSD_CMD_CACHE_FLUSH, + .doit = nfsd_nl_cache_flush_doit, + .policy = nfsd_cache_flush_nl_policy, + .maxattr = NFSD_A_CACHE_FLUSH_MASK, + .flags = GENL_ADMIN_PERM | GENL_CMD_CAP_DO, + }, }; static const struct genl_multicast_group nfsd_nl_mcgrps[] = {
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/netlink.h b/fs/nfsd/netlink.h
index f5b3387772850692b220bbbf8a66bc416b67801e..cc89732ed71bd77c1eee011dd07f130c6909462b 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/netlink.h
+++ b/fs/nfsd/netlink.h@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ int nfsd_nl_svc_export_set_reqs_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, int nfsd_nl_expkey_get_reqs_dumpit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb); int nfsd_nl_expkey_set_reqs_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info); +int nfsd_nl_cache_flush_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info); enum { NFSD_NLGRP_NONE,
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
index 0f236046adfd239d0f88f4ed82a14e1a41cb6abe..3241bcfc2c6ff0b3273a81642180d17cf6c5b4a3 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ #include <linux/ctype.h> #include <linux/fs_context.h> +#include <linux/sunrpc/cache.h> #include <linux/sunrpc/svcsock.h> #include <linux/lockd/bind.h> #include <linux/sunrpc/addr.h>
@@ -2215,6 +2216,41 @@ int nfsd_nl_pool_mode_get_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) return err; } +/** + * nfsd_nl_cache_flush_doit - flush nfsd caches via netlink + * @skb: reply buffer + * @info: netlink metadata and command arguments + * + * Flush the svc_export and/or expkey caches. If NFSD_A_CACHE_FLUSH_MASK + * is provided, only flush the caches indicated by the bitmask (bit 0 = + * svc_export, bit 1 = expkey). If omitted, flush both. + * + * Return 0 on success or a negative errno. + */ +int nfsd_nl_cache_flush_doit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info) +{ + struct net *net = genl_info_net(info); + struct nfsd_net *nn = net_generic(net, nfsd_net_id); + u32 mask = ~0U; + + if (info->attrs[NFSD_A_CACHE_FLUSH_MASK]) + mask = nla_get_u32(info->attrs[NFSD_A_CACHE_FLUSH_MASK]); + + mutex_lock(&nfsd_mutex); + + if ((mask & NFSD_CACHE_TYPE_SVC_EXPORT) && + nn->svc_export_cache) + cache_purge(nn->svc_export_cache); + + if ((mask & NFSD_CACHE_TYPE_EXPKEY) && + nn->svc_expkey_cache) + cache_purge(nn->svc_expkey_cache); + + mutex_unlock(&nfsd_mutex); + + return 0; +} + int nfsd_cache_notify(struct cache_detail *cd, struct cache_head *h, u32 cache_type) { struct genlmsghdr *hdr;
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nfsd_netlink.h b/include/uapi/linux/nfsd_netlink.h
index 2cbd2a36f00ca38e313e95a4ccfaa46a5c1c0df3..2d708d24cbd23770f800fa7e52b351886aec785c 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nfsd_netlink.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nfsd_netlink.h@@ -206,6 +206,13 @@ enum { NFSD_A_EXPKEY_REQS_MAX = (__NFSD_A_EXPKEY_REQS_MAX - 1) }; +enum { + NFSD_A_CACHE_FLUSH_MASK = 1, + + __NFSD_A_CACHE_FLUSH_MAX, + NFSD_A_CACHE_FLUSH_MAX = (__NFSD_A_CACHE_FLUSH_MAX - 1) +}; + enum { NFSD_CMD_RPC_STATUS_GET = 1, NFSD_CMD_THREADS_SET,
@@ -221,6 +228,7 @@ enum { NFSD_CMD_SVC_EXPORT_SET_REQS, NFSD_CMD_EXPKEY_GET_REQS, NFSD_CMD_EXPKEY_SET_REQS, + NFSD_CMD_CACHE_FLUSH, __NFSD_CMD_MAX, NFSD_CMD_MAX = (__NFSD_CMD_MAX - 1)
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