[PATCH] staging/lustre: proper support of NFS anonymous dentries

Oleg Drokin green at linuxhacker.ru
Tue Feb 23 02:34:17 UTC 2016


On Feb 14, 2016, at 7:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 07:13:52PM -0500, green at linuxhacker.ru wrote:
>> From: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin at intel.com>
>> 
>> NFS can ask to encode dentries that are not connected to the root.
>> The fix check for parent is NULL and encode a file handle accordingly.
>> 
>> Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/8347
>> Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-4231
>> Reviewed-by: Fan Yong <fan.yong at intel.com>
>> Reviewed-by: James Simmons <uja.ornl at gmail.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Jian Yu <jian.yu at intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin at intel.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green at linuxhacker.ru>
>> ---
>> This also happens to fix a crash when you try to use fhandle syscalls
>> with Lustre.
>> 
>> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_nfs.c | 30 ++++++++++++++-----------
>> include/linux/exportfs.h                        |  6 +++++
> 
> I need an ack from someone who maintains nfs code before I can take this
> one…

Now that we have an Ack from Jef Layton, is thee anybody else you want to ack this?
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/76298

Or something else for me to do?
The patch still applies fine to your tree.

Thanks.

Bye,
    Oleg


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