Re: [PATCH] d_ino considered harmful

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

On Wednesday 16 June 2010 20:59:13 Valerie Aurora wrote:
> @@ -91,7 +91,9 @@ static int fillonedir(void * __buf, const char * name, int namlen, loff_t offset
>  
>         if (buf->result)
>                 return -EINVAL;
> -       d_ino = ino;
> +       /* Use of d_ino without st_dev is always buggy. */
> +       d_ino = 0;
> +
>         if (sizeof(d_ino) < sizeof(ino) && d_ino != ino) {
>                 buf->result = -EOVERFLOW;
>                 return -EOVERFLOW;

Isn't this just the path taken by sys_oldreaddir?

Glibc (at least on my box) translates all user calls to readdir into
sys_getdents or sys_getdents64, so I think you'd also need to change
filldir() and filldir64() for your testing.

	Arnd