[PATCH] cifs: always revalidate hardlinked inodes when using noserverino

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Mon May 17 12:51:49 MDT 2010


The old cifs_revalidate logic always revalidated hardlinked inodes.
This hack allowed CIFS to pass some connectathon tests when server inode
numbers aren't used (basic test7, in particular).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
---
 fs/cifs/inode.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index 5b042fc..8e05e8a 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -1528,6 +1528,11 @@ cifs_inode_needs_reval(struct inode *inode)
 	if (time_after_eq(jiffies, cifs_i->time + HZ))
 		return true;
 
+	/* hardlinked files w/ noserverino get "special" treatment */
+	if (!(CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb)->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_SERVER_INUM) &&
+	    S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_nlink != 1)
+		return true;
+
 	return false;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.6.1


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