linux-kernel - Re: nfs accesses of FAT fs folders causes deadlock on lock

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Message-ID: <t2gd4f60c3c1005041101o5720e1e4k69b4a7b76296e70f@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 4 May 2010 11:01:22 -0700
From:	Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans <fredrickprashanth@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nfs accesses of FAT fs folders causes deadlock on lock_super

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 10:59:42PM -0700, Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans wrote:
>> The box was running kernel version 2.6.27.10.
>> But I think the FAT code has not changed much.
>
> But the nfsd code has and now doesn't call lookup from the filldir
> callback anymore.
>
>

I see from nfsd code, it seems the compose_entry_fh still calls
lookup_one_len, which is now
called from encode_entryplus_baggage instead of entry_encode.
Am I right?
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