linux-kernel - Re: [Devel] [PATCH 2/6] nfsd: swap fs root in NFSd kthreads

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Message-ID: <20121211145858.GI4939@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:58:58 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [Devel] [PATCH 2/6] nfsd: swap fs root in NFSd kthreads

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 09:56:21AM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> That looks simpler, but I still don't understand why we need it.
> 
> I'm confused about how d_path works; I would have thought that
> filesystem namespaces would have their own vfsmount trees and hence that
> the (vfsmount, dentry) would be enough to specify the path.  Is the root
> argument for the case of chroot?  Do we care about that?

__d_path() is relative pathname from here to there.  Whether (and what for)
is it wanted in case of nfsd patches is a separate question...

> Also, svc_export_request is called from mountd's read of
> /proc/net/rpc/nfsd.export/channel.  If mountd's root is wrong, then
> nothing's going to work anyway.
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