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From: "Petr Vandrovec" <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
To: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.19pre8][RFC] remove-NFS-close-to-open from V
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 23:22:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E52C4F573C@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> (raw)

On 17 Oct 02 at 16:38, Jan Harkes wrote:
> 
> Originally, returning a error from d_revalidate in cached_lookup would
> force a subsequent real_lookup. After the patch, returning an error from
> d_revalidate propagates (in some cases) ESTALE back up to userspace.

For example if you do 'ls -l' in root directory of mounted ncpfs
filesystem because of ncpfs did not expect that somebody can
call it with entry name "/" (which contains illegal character for 
filename, '/'), and so it refused to believe that such entry is valid...
                                            Best regards,
                                                Petr Vandrovec
                                                vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                                

> --- 1.19/fs/namei.c Thu Feb 28 05:57:29 2002
> +++ 1.20/fs/namei.c Tue Mar 12 07:35:02 2002
> @@ -627,6 +627,19 @@
>         nd->last_type = LAST_DOT;
>     else if (this.len == 2 && this.name[1] == '.')
>         nd->last_type = LAST_DOTDOT;
> +return_reval:
> +       /*
> +        * We bypassed the ordinary revalidation routines.
> +        * Check the cached dentry for staleness.
> +        */
> +       dentry = nd->dentry;
> +       if (dentry && dentry->d_op && dentry->d_op->d_revalidate) {
> +           err = -ESTALE;
> +           if (!dentry->d_op->d_revalidate(dentry, 0)) {
> +               d_invalidate(dentry);
> +               break;
> +           }
> +       }
>  return_base:
>     return 0;
>  out_dput:
> 
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