linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] enhanced ESTALE error handling

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Message-ID: <20080118171805.GA15158@fieldses.org>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:18:05 -0500
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	Peter Staubach <staubach@...hat.com>
Cc:	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] enhanced ESTALE error handling

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:45:52AM -0500, Peter Staubach wrote:
> Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:36:01AM -0500, Peter Staubach wrote:
>>>  static int path_lookup_create(int dfd, const char *name,
>>> -			      unsigned int lookup_flags, struct nameidata *nd,
>>> -			      int open_flags, int create_mode)
>>> +		unsigned int lookup_flags, struct nameidata *nd,
>>> +		int open_flags, int create_mode)
>>>     
>>
>> Gratuitous reformatting?
>>
>>   
>
> Elimination of an overly long line?

I usually try to gather any coding style, comment grammar, etc., fixes
into a single patch or two at the beginning of a series.  That keeps the
substantive patches (the hardest to understand) shorter.

--b.

>
>>> @@ -1712,7 +1729,10 @@ int open_namei(int dfd, const char *path
>>>  	int acc_mode, error;
>>>  	struct path path;
>>>  	struct dentry *dir;
>>> -	int count = 0;
>>> +	int count;
>>> +
>>> +top:
>>> +	count = 0;
>>>   	acc_mode = ACC_MODE(flag);
>>>  @@ -1739,7 +1759,8 @@ int open_namei(int dfd, const char *path
>>>  	/*
>>>  	 * Create - we need to know the parent.
>>>  	 */
>>> -	error = path_lookup_create(dfd,pathname,LOOKUP_PARENT,nd,flag,mode);
>>> +	error = path_lookup_create(dfd, pathname, LOOKUP_PARENT, nd,
>>> +				flag, mode);
>>>  	if (error)
>>>  		return error;
>>>  @@ -1812,10 +1833,17 @@ ok:
>>>  	return 0;
>>>   exit_dput:
>>> +	if (error == -ESTALE)
>>> +		d_drop(path.dentry);
>>>  	dput_path(&path, nd);
>>>  exit:
>>>  	if (!IS_ERR(nd->intent.open.file))
>>>  		release_open_intent(nd);
>>> +	if (error == -ESTALE) {
>>> +		d_drop(nd->dentry);
>>> +		path_release(nd);
>>> +		goto top;
>>> +	}
>>>     
>>
>> I wonder if a tail-call might not work better here.
>
> "Tail-call"?
>
>    Thanx...
>
>       ps
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