From: Trond Myklebust Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:34:59 +0000 (-0500) Subject: NFS: Fix dentry revalidation for NFSv4 referrals and mountpoint crossings X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc5~11^2 X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4e99a1ff3410c627a428d5ddb6cd2e7bc908a486;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git NFS: Fix dentry revalidation for NFSv4 referrals and mountpoint crossings As long as the directory contents haven't changed, we should just let the path walk proceed to cross the mountpoint. Apart from being an optimisation in the case of 'nohide' mountpoint traversals, it also fixes an issue with referrals: referral inodes don't have valid filehandles, so calling nfs_revalidate_inode() on them is a bug. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index ae04892a5e5..6cea7479c5b 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -710,6 +710,8 @@ int nfs_lookup_verify_inode(struct inode *inode, struct nameidata *nd) { struct nfs_server *server = NFS_SERVER(inode); + if (test_bit(NFS_INO_MOUNTPOINT, &NFS_I(inode)->flags)) + return 0; if (nd != NULL) { /* VFS wants an on-the-wire revalidation */ if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_REVAL)