The 9P spec at http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/5/intro says:
All directories must support walks to the directory .. (dot-dot) meaning
parent directory, although by convention directories contain no explicit
entry for .. or . (dot). The parent of the root directory of a server's
tree is itself.
This means that a client cannot walk further than the root directory
exported by the server. In other words, if the client wants to walk
"/.." or "/foo/../..", the server should answer like the request was
to walk "/".
This patch just does that:
- we cache the QID of the root directory at attach time
- during the walk we compare the QID of each path component with the root
QID to detect if we're in a "/.." situation
- if so, we skip the current component and go to the next one
Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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