linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] cifs: Handle all name surrogate reparse points

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Message-ID: <20250223222306.plgy3bpy5mjojfve@pali>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 23:23:06 +0100
From: Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
To: Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>, Paulo Alcantara <pc@...guebit.com>,
	Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@...il.com>
Cc: linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] cifs: Handle all name surrogate reparse points

Hello Steve, I see that you have merged first two changes (1/4 and 2/4)
from this patch series, but the remaining (3/4 and 4/4). Is there any
reason why 3/4 and 4/4 was not taken?

On Sunday 22 December 2024 15:58:41 Pali Rohár wrote:
> Name surrogate reparse point represents another named entity in the system.
> 
> If the name surrogate reparse point is not handled by Linux SMB client
> and it is of directory type then treat it as a new mount point.
> 
> Cleanup code for all explicit surrogate reparse points (like reparse
> points with tag IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT) as they are handled by
> generic name surrogate reparse point code.
> 
> Pali Rohár (4):
>   cifs: Throw -EOPNOTSUPP error on unsupported reparse point type from
>     parse_reparse_point()
>   cifs: Treat unhandled directory name surrogate reparse points as mount
>     directory nodes
>   cifs: Remove explicit handling of IO_REPARSE_TAG_MOUNT_POINT in
>     inode.c
>   cifs: Improve handling of name surrogate reparse points in reparse.c
> 
>  fs/smb/client/inode.c    | 17 +++++++++++++----
>  fs/smb/client/reparse.c  | 24 ++++++++++--------------
>  fs/smb/common/smbfsctl.h |  3 +++
>  3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.20.1
>