afs: Fix speculative status fetch going out of order wrt to modifications
When doing a lookup in a directory, the afs filesystem uses a bulk status fetch to speculatively retrieve the statuses of up to 48 other vnodes found in the same directory and it will then either update extant inodes or create new ones - effectively doing 'lookup ahead'. To avoid the possibility of deadlocking itself, however, the filesystem doesn't lock all of those inodes; rather just the directory inode is locked (by the VFS). When the operation completes, afs_inode_init_from_status() or afs_apply_status() is called, depending on whether the inode already exists, to commit the new status. A case exists, however, where the speculative status fetch operation may straddle a modification operation on one of those vnodes. What can then happen is that the speculative bulk status RPC retrieves the old status, and whilst that is happening, the modification happens - which returns an updated status, then the modification status is com...
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