linux-kernel - Re: [pnfs] [GIT BISECT] first bad commit: 1f36f774 Switch !O_CREAT case to use of do

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Date:	Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:45:53 +0200
From:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
CC:	Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...i.umich.edu>,
	pNFS Mailing List <pnfs@...ux-nfs.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Doug Nazar <nazard.lkml@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [pnfs] [GIT BISECT] first bad commit: 1f36f774 Switch !O_CREAT
 case to use of do_last()

On 03/25/2010 03:37 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 03:30:22PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>>> Let's try this: before do_lookup() call there add
>>> 	if (*want_dir)
>>> 		nd->flags |= LOOKUP_DIRECTORY;
>>
>> Yes this fixes it!!
>> 2.6.34-rc2 plus above, now works, horay. (diff attached)
>>
>>> and see how does it behave.
>>>
>>> However, even if it does help, it doesn't explain everything.  Normal
>>> open() on a directory without O_DIRECTORY if flags shouldn't fail with
>>> -EISDIR.  How did that manage to avoid it all along?
> 
> Does open() of directory _without_ O_DIRECTORY work in e.g. vanilla 2.6.33?
> It certainly does for local filesystems and it does for NFSv3; does it work
> for NFSv4?

In my tests. Every thing is the same safe the client with the above change.

So I guess NFSv4 does something different when asked for directory lookup
as opposed to files lookup. I guess there is something added/removed to
the compound depending on that flag. But I wouldn't know, I am not familiar 
with this code. NFSv4 someone?

Boaz
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