Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> [David, any chance you could look at the suggestion below to refactor
> the automount from ->follow_link code into a common helper now that
> we've grown a second copy from it]
>
>
> +cifs_dfs_follow_mountpoint(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd)
> +{
> + struct dfs_info3_param *referrals = NULL;
> + unsigned int num_referrals = 0;
> + struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb;
> + struct cifsSesInfo *ses;
> + char *full_path = NULL;
> + int xid, i;
> + int rc = 0;
> + struct vfsmount *mnt = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> +
> + cFYI(1, ("in %s", __FUNCTION__));
> + BUG_ON(IS_ROOT(dentry));
> +
> + xid = GetXid();
> +
> + dput(nd->dentry);
> + nd->dentry = dget(dentry);
> + if (d_mountpoint(nd->dentry))
> + goto out_follow;
>
> A link should never be a mountpoint.
why link? after patch 5 are applied DFS junction point becomes directory
instead of link. That is what has been done in NFS code.
> + if (IS_ERR(mnt))
> + goto out_err;
> +
> + mntget(mnt);
> + rc = do_add_mount(mnt, nd, nd->mnt->mnt_flags,
> + &cifs_dfs_automount_list);
> + if (rc < 0) {
> + mntput(mnt);
> + if (rc == -EBUSY)
> + goto out_follow;
> + goto out_err;
> + }
> + mntput(nd->mnt);
> + dput(nd->dentry);
> + nd->mnt = mnt;
> + nd->dentry = dget(mnt->mnt_root);
>
> the version of the code in afs that you copy & pasted from in afs
> with the switch statement looked more readable. In fact it would
> probably be useful if most of this could be split into a common
> helper.
Actually I copy & pasted it from NFS code ...
fs/nfs/namespace.c:nfs_follow_mountpoint
I've tried to do submount/referral machinery in NFS code way.
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Best regards,
-------------------------
Igor Mammedov,
niallain "at" gmail.com
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