[PATCH 1/4] nfsd4: better VERIFY comment

J. Bruce Fields
2014-01-07T21:05:13Z

This confuses me every time.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
---
fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
index 41e34df..dadff09 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
@@ -1069,8 +1069,10 @@ _nfsd4_verify(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate,
cstate->current_fh.fh_dentry, &p,
count, verify->ve_bmval,
rqstp, 0);
-
- /* this means that nfsd4_encode_fattr() ran out of space */
+ /*
+ * If nfsd4_encode_fattr() ran out of space, assume that's because
+ * the attributes are longer (hence different) than those given:
+ */
if (status == nfserr_resource)
status = nfserr_not_same;
if (status)
--
1.7.9.5