From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] fs: fix d_validate
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:25:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101116162513.GA1994@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin_am+PNEc0xWKurpb4XRFSf0CwFN4hSQMTNb+L@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:20:52AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm. Iirc (and it's possible that I don't) the original reason for the
> whole kmem_ptr_validate() was for nfsd sending dentry pointers back
> and forth as part of the FH.
If it did that it's been a long time ago, pre-2.4 at least. In addition
to that since the introduction of export operations we can't NFS-export
either ncpfs or smbfs anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-16 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-16 6:23 [patch] fs: fix d_validate Nick Piggin
2010-11-16 6:24 ` [patch] kernel: get rid of *_ptr_validate Nick Piggin
2010-11-16 10:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-16 10:20 ` [patch] fs: fix d_validate Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-16 10:25 ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-16 16:28 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-11-17 3:51 ` Nick Piggin
2010-11-16 16:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-11-16 16:25 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-11-17 3:49 ` Nick Piggin
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