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Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:28:20 +0530 From: "Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> To: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp> Cc: hch@...radead.org, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, adilger@....com, corbet@....net, serue@...ibm.com, neilb@...e.de, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, sfrench@...ibm.com, philippe.deniel@....FR, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH -V8 2/9] vfs: Add name to file handle conversion support On Tue, 18 May 2010 15:18:28 +0900, "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@...oo.co.jp> wrote: > > "Aneesh Kumar K. V": > > The file_handle I mentioned above is the file handle returned by > > sys_name_to_handle_at syscall. NFS kernel server won't be using the > > interface. > > Thanx clarifying. > I think I should read the notes in the first description (0/9) before > posting. > It says UUID is just for userspace. > > Reading all 9 patches, I noticed handle_to_path() calls > exportfs_decode_fh() inconditionally. > Since exportfs_decode_fh() calls s_export_op->fh_to_dentry() > inconditionally too, handle_to_path() will crash when the target FS > doesn't support NFS-exporting, won't it? > I guess we should fix exprtfs_decode_fh to return -ESTALE if fh_to_dentry is NULL -aneesh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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