From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vfs-scale, d_revalidate from nfsd
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:22:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110114032224.GW19804@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110114032052.GV19804@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
> BTW, why on the earth do you have that:
> static int xattr_hide_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
> {
> if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
> return -ECHILD;
> return -EPERM;
> }
> when the sole intent of that sucker is to have dentry of /.xattr (pinned
> in dcache and hashed all along) rejected on lookups from root? IOW, WTF
> bother with -ECHILD here at all?
PS: that's fs/reiserfs/xattr.c
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-14 3:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-13 14:03 vfs-scale, d_revalidate from nfsd J. R. Okajima
2011-01-14 2:57 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-14 3:03 ` Al Viro
2011-01-14 3:12 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-14 3:12 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-14 3:20 ` Al Viro
2011-01-14 3:22 ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-01-14 3:29 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-14 3:29 ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-14 3:38 ` Al Viro
2011-01-15 3:47 ` J. R. Okajima
2011-01-15 18:11 ` Nick Piggin
2011-02-15 5:07 ` J. R. Okajima
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