Re: [PATCH] CIFS: fix automount for DFS shares

[Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>]

On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 13:09 +0200, Gerlando Falauto wrote:
> Automounting directories are now invalidated by .d_revalidate()
> so to be d_instantiate()d again with the right DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT
> flag

But why doesn't CIFS know this is a DFS inode the first time around, it
appears to do a truck load of work looking that stuff up?

> 
> Signed-off-by: Gerlando Falauto <gerlando.falauto@keymile.com>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/dir.c |    7 ++++++-
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
> index 9ea65cf..67f54d3 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
> @@ -637,8 +637,13 @@ cifs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *direntry, struct nameidata *nd)
>  	if (direntry->d_inode) {
>  		if (cifs_revalidate_dentry(direntry))
>  			return 0;
> -		else
> +		else {
> +			/* We want automonting inodes to be
> +			 * considered invalid or so */
> +			if (IS_AUTOMOUNT(direntry->d_inode))
> +				return 0;

I'd be inclined to set DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT here but are we certain
that cifs_revalidate_dentry() will always return 0 for a DFS inode or at
least ones that don't yet have DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT set and why?

>  			return 1;
> +		}
>  	}
>  
>  	/*