Re: [PATCH] cifs: don't instantiate new dentries in readdir for inodes that need to be revalidated immediately

[Marcus Moeller <marcus.moeller-OI3hZJvNYWs@public.gmane.org>]

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Am 08.08.2013 17:33, schrieb Steve French:
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 08 Aug 2013 16:05:44 +0200
>> Marcus Moeller <marcus.moeller-OI3hZJvNYWs@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Am 07.08.2013 15:42, schrieb David McBride:
>>>> On 07/08/13 14:06, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This patch is untested (other than for compilation), but I think it'll
>>>>> do the right thing. Metze, David could you test it and let us know if
>>>>> it helps?
>>>
>>> Just to verify: could it be that mfsymlink is already broken in
>>> 3.9.6-301.fc19? At least links created with fedora 18 are no longer
>>> readable there. Newly created links seems to work fine (at least till now).
>>>
>>> Greets
>>> Marcus
>>>
>>
>> Yes, 3.9.6 has the patch that broke it.
>>
>> What matters is how the (in memory) inode is created after mounting. If
>> you first run across an mfsymlink with a readdir() call, then you'll
>> get an inode that's "stuck" as a regular file. If you instead do
>> something like stat() it before ever running a readdir over the
>> containing directory, it should work just fine.
>>
>> This patch probably is probably reasonable for stable, given that the
>> original one also went there.
>>
>> Steve, want to mark as such?

@Jeff, could you please do me a favor and let me know, when this is 
stable/made it to Fedora, as we are in need of that patch.

Thanks
Marcus



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