[linux-cifs-client] review 3,
was Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support DFS junction points
Christoph Hellwig
hch at infradead.org
Sun Jan 13 19:50:57 GMT 2008
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL
+ /* copy mount params to sb for use in submounts */
+ /* BB: should we move this after the mount so we
+ * do not have to do the copy on failed mounts?
+ * BB: May be it is better to do simple copy before
+ * complex operation (mount), and in case of fail
+ * just exit instead of doing mount and attempting
+ * undo it if this copy fails?*/
+ len = strlen(data);
+ cifs_sb->mountdata = kzalloc(len + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (cifs_sb->mountdata == NULL) {
+ kfree(sb->s_fs_info);
+ sb->s_fs_info = NULL;
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
+ strncpy(cifs_sb->mountdata, data, len + 1);
+ cifs_sb->mountdata[len] = '\0';
+#endif
Please split the mount data handling into nice helpers that can
be stubbed out for !CONFIG_CIFS_DFS_UPCALL.
-static struct file_system_type cifs_fs_type = {
+struct file_system_type cifs_fs_type = {
This isn't actually used outside of cifsfs.c in this patch, so it should
not be made non-static here.
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