Address a problem found when a Linux NFS server uses the "subtree_check"
export option.
The "subtree_check" NFS export option was designed to prohibit a client
from using a file handle for which it should not have permission. The
algorithm used is to ensure that the entire path to the file being
referenced is accessible to the user attempting to use the file handle. If
some part of the path is not accessible, then the operation is aborted and
the appropriate version of ESTALE is returned to the NFS client.
The error, ESTALE, is unfortunate in that it causes NFS clients to make
certain assumptions about the continued existence of the file. They assume
that the file no longer exists and refuse to attempt to access it again.
In this case, the file really does exist, but access was denied by the
server for a particular user.
A better error to return would be an EACCES sort of error. This would
inform the client that the particular operation that it was attempting was
not allowed, without the nasty side effects of the ESTALE error.
Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Acked-By: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
find_exported_dentry contains two duplicate loops to find an alias that the
acceptable callback likes. Split this out to a new helper and switch from
list_for_each to list_for_each_entry to make it more readable.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on
XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your
luck with it might be different.
Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
(finished the conversion)
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Peter Staubach