[PATCH nfsd] ignore chmod calls on symlinks

[Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>]

I submitted this before - this is a somewhat cosmetic fix to
keep the SpecFS validation test from complaining.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>

Index: linux-2.6.12/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.12.orig/fs/nfsd/vfs.c	2005-07-08 11:45:19.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.12/fs/nfsd/vfs.c	2005-07-11 13:05:33.000000000 +0200
@@ -255,12 +255,19 @@ nfsd_setattr(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, str
 
 	/* Get inode */
 	err = fh_verify(rqstp, fhp, ftype, accmode);
-	if (err || !iap->ia_valid)
+	if (err)
 		goto out;
 
 	dentry = fhp->fh_dentry;
 	inode = dentry->d_inode;
 
+	/* Ignore any mode updates on symlinks */
+	if (S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
+		iap->ia_valid &= ~ATTR_MODE;
+
+	if (!iap->ia_valid)
+		goto out;
+
 	/* NFSv2 does not differentiate between "set-[ac]time-to-now"
 	 * which only requires access, and "set-[ac]time-to-X" which
 	 * requires ownership.
-- 
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