AFS doesn't really do locking on R/O volumes as fileservers don't maintain
state with each other and thus a lock on a R/O volume file on one
fileserver will not be be visible to someone looking at the same file on
another fileserver.

Further, the server may return an error if you try it.

Fix this by doing what other AFS clients do and handle filelocking on R/O
volume files entirely within the client and don't touch the server.

Fixes: 6c6c1d63c243 ("afs: Provide mount-time configurable byte-range file locking emulation")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
---
 fs/afs/super.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/afs/super.c b/fs/afs/super.c
index 95d713074dc8..e95fb4cb4fcd 100644
--- a/fs/afs/super.c
+++ b/fs/afs/super.c
@@ -407,6 +407,8 @@ static int afs_validate_fc(struct fs_context *fc)
 			return PTR_ERR(volume);
 
 		ctx->volume = volume;
+		if (volume->type != AFSVL_RWVOL)
+			ctx->flock_mode = afs_flock_mode_local;
 	}
 
 	return 0;

On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 11:53 AM David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> AFS doesn't really do locking on R/O volumes as fileservers don't maintain
> state with each other and thus a lock on a R/O volume file on one
> fileserver will not be be visible to someone looking at the same file on
> another fileserver.
>
> Further, the server may return an error if you try it.
>
> Fix this by doing what other AFS clients do and handle filelocking on R/O
> volume files entirely within the client and don't touch the server.
>
> Fixes: 6c6c1d63c243 ("afs: Provide mount-time configurable byte-range file locking emulation")
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> cc: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>
> cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
> ---
>  fs/afs/super.c | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/afs/super.c b/fs/afs/super.c
> index 95d713074dc8..e95fb4cb4fcd 100644
> --- a/fs/afs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/afs/super.c
> @@ -407,6 +407,8 @@ static int afs_validate_fc(struct fs_context *fc)
>                         return PTR_ERR(volume);
>
>                 ctx->volume = volume;
> +               if (volume->type != AFSVL_RWVOL)
> +                       ctx->flock_mode = afs_flock_mode_local;
>         }
>
>         return 0;

Reviewed-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@auristor.com>

Marc