[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH] cifs: guard against hardlinking directories

[Steve French]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 2010 12:15:51 -0500
> Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Merged into cifs-2.6.git - if the branch for-linus does not look
>> weird/broken, plan to request upstream tonight.
>>
>>
>>
>
> I just made some comments on this to the bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7407#c13
>
> ...I wonder whether this patch may be too aggressive about disabling
> serverino. It seems like we ought to be OK with finding an inode that
> is "floating", just not one that has a dentry already attached.
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
>

I agree - but have to deal with the oops first ASAP - narrow it later.

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Thanks,

Steve