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

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Message-ID: <CAH2r5mv_+ZarrSPEhDjgEYPzqkvdqL-K7NjDsE0sXtrhx65G7A@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:48:50 -0600
From: Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>
To: Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org>
Cc: Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>, Paulo Alcantara <pc@...guebit.com>, 
	Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@...il.com>, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] cifs: Handle all name surrogate reparse points

On Sun, Feb 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM Pali Rohár <pali@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> 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?

Mainly because I wasn't able to easily test it, and didn't get test
feedback for anyone else
on those two who had tried it.

I am ok with looking at them again - and thx for rebasing.   There are
some of the 41
patches in your updated cifs branch that do look suitable or rc5


> 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
> >
>


-- 
Thanks,

Steve