Re: [PATCH] staging/lustre: proper support of NFS anonymous dentries

[Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>]

On Feb 26, 2016, at 1:13 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 09:34:17PM -0500, Oleg Drokin wrote:
>> 
>> On Feb 14, 2016, at 7:58 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> 
>>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 07:13:52PM -0500, green@linuxhacker.ru wrote:
>>>> From: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@intel.com>
>>>> 
>>>> NFS can ask to encode dentries that are not connected to the root.
>>>> The fix check for parent is NULL and encode a file handle accordingly.
>>>> 
>>>> Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/8347
>>>> Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-4231
>>>> Reviewed-by: Fan Yong <fan.yong@intel.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: James Simmons <uja.ornl@gmail.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Jian Yu <jian.yu@intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin <dmitry.eremin@intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
>>>> ---
>>>> This also happens to fix a crash when you try to use fhandle syscalls
>>>> with Lustre.
>>>> 
>>>> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_nfs.c | 30 ++++++++++++++-----------
>>>> include/linux/exportfs.h                        |  6 +++++
>>> 
>>> I need an ack from someone who maintains nfs code before I can take this
>>> one�
>> 
>> Now that we have an Ack from Jef Layton, is thee anybody else you want to ack this?
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/76298
>> 
>> Or something else for me to do?
>> The patch still applies fine to your tree.
> 
> Ok, now queued up, thanks.

If you can resume applying my patchset on top of this patch - it should apply now.

Thanks.