Re: [PATCH 3/6] ceph: return the correct dentry on mkdir

[Viacheslav Dubeyko <Slava.Dubeyko@ibm.com>]

On Fri, 2025-02-21 at 10:36 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> ceph already splices the correct dentry (in splice_dentry()) from the
> result of mkdir but does nothing more with it.
> 
> Now that ->mkdir can return a dentry, return the correct dentry.
> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
> ---
>  fs/ceph/dir.c | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ceph/dir.c b/fs/ceph/dir.c
> index 39e0f240de06..c1a1c168bb27 100644
> --- a/fs/ceph/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/ceph/dir.c
> @@ -1099,6 +1099,7 @@ static struct dentry *ceph_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
>  	struct ceph_client *cl = mdsc->fsc->client;
>  	struct ceph_mds_request *req;
>  	struct ceph_acl_sec_ctx as_ctx = {};
> +	struct dentry *ret = NULL;

I believe that it makes sense to initialize pointer by error here and always
return ret as output. If something goes wrong in the logic, then we already have
error.

>  	int err;
>  	int op;
>  
> @@ -1166,14 +1167,20 @@ static struct dentry *ceph_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
>  	    !req->r_reply_info.head->is_dentry)
>  		err = ceph_handle_notrace_create(dir, dentry);
>  out_req:
> +	if (!err && req->r_dentry != dentry)
> +		/* Some other dentry was spliced in */
> +		ret = dget(req->r_dentry);
>  	ceph_mdsc_put_request(req);
>  out:
>  	if (!err)
> +		/* Should this use 'ret' ?? */

Could we make a decision should or shouldn't? :)
It looks not good to leave this comment instead of proper implementation. Do we
have some obstacles to make this decision?

>  		ceph_init_inode_acls(d_inode(dentry), &as_ctx);
>  	else
>  		d_drop(dentry);
>  	ceph_release_acl_sec_ctx(&as_ctx);
> -	return ERR_PTR(err);
> +	if (err)
> +		return ERR_PTR(err);
> +	return ret;

What's about this?

return err ? ERR_PTR(err) : ret;

Thanks,
Slava.

>  }
>  
>  static int ceph_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir,