linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] Fix i_mutex handling in nfsd readdir

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Message-ID: <20090508184737.GG20539@fieldses.org>
Date:	Fri, 8 May 2009 14:47:37 -0400
From:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
To:	hooanon05@...oo.co.jp
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, hch@...radead.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Fix i_mutex handling in nfsd readdir

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 01:38:27PM +0900, hooanon05@...oo.co.jp wrote:
> 
> "J. Bruce Fields":
> > I wonder if it'd be simpler just to keep the loookup_one_len() in
> > nfsd4_encode_dirent() and just be prepared to roll back the encoding
> > we've already done if we find out at that point the dentry has gone
> > negative.  Actually, that doesn't look hard.
> > 
> > Thanks for looking at this!
> 
> The patch looks much better than before, and more than I expected. :-)

OK, thanks, I'll submit it to 2.6.30 and .29.

--b.
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