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<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (Fixups for Andrew's patchbomb)</title>
<updated>2012-06-02T02:56:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-02T02:56:23+00:00</published>
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Merge fixups for the mac NLS tables from Andrew.

* emailed from Andrew Morton, and one cleanup by me:
  nls: fix (and rename) mac NLS table files and config options
  fs/nls/Makefile: remove bogus CONFIG_ assignments
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Merge fixups for the mac NLS tables from Andrew.

* emailed from Andrew Morton, and one cleanup by me:
  nls: fix (and rename) mac NLS table files and config options
  fs/nls/Makefile: remove bogus CONFIG_ assignments
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<entry>
<title>nls: fix (and rename) mac NLS table files and config options</title>
<updated>2012-06-02T02:51:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-02T02:51:22+00:00</published>
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The config options in the Kconfig file (with _CODEPAGE_ in the name)
didn't match the config option name in the Makefile (no _CODEPAGE_).

And both of them were of the hard-to-read MACXYZZY variety, which made
them hard to parse for normal humans: MACROMAN easily reads as "macro
man", not as "Mac Roman".

So rename the options to be consistent, and be NLS_MAC_xyzzy.  Rename
the files to be mac-xyzzy.c too, and drop the "nls" part entirely (it's
already in the directory name).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The config options in the Kconfig file (with _CODEPAGE_ in the name)
didn't match the config option name in the Makefile (no _CODEPAGE_).

And both of them were of the hard-to-read MACXYZZY variety, which made
them hard to parse for normal humans: MACROMAN easily reads as "macro
man", not as "Mac Roman".

So rename the options to be consistent, and be NLS_MAC_xyzzy.  Rename
the files to be mac-xyzzy.c too, and drop the "nls" part entirely (it's
already in the directory name).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/nls/Makefile: remove bogus CONFIG_ assignments</title>
<updated>2012-06-02T02:47:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrew Morton</name>
<email>akpm@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-01T21:57:41+00:00</published>
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These were debug things which snuck through.

Reported-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Serbinenko &lt;phcoder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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These were debug things which snuck through.

Reported-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vladimir Serbinenko &lt;phcoder@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-3.5-20120601' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T23:55:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-01T23:55:42+00:00</published>
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Pull mtd update from David Woodhouse:
 - More robust parsing especially of xattr data in JFFS2
 - Updates to mxc_nand and gpmi drivers to support new boards and device tree
 - Improve consistency of information about ECC strength in NAND devices
 - Clean up partition handling of plat_nand
 - Support NAND drivers without dedicated access to OOB area
 - BCH hardware ECC support for OMAP
 - Other fixes and cleanups, and a few new device IDs

Fixed trivial conflict in drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c due to
added include files next to each other.

* tag 'for-linus-3.5-20120601' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (75 commits)
  mtd: mxc_nand: move ecc strengh setup before nand_scan_tail
  mtd: block2mtd: fix recursive call of mtd_writev
  mtd: gpmi-nand: define ecc.strength
  mtd: of_parts: fix breakage in Kconfig
  mtd: nand: fix scan_read_raw_oob
  mtd: docg3 fix in-middle of blocks reads
  mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Slight cleanup of fixup messages
  mtd: add fixup for S29NS512P NOR flash.
  jffs2: allow to complete xattr integrity check on first GC scan
  jffs2: allow to discriminate between recoverable and non-recoverable errors
  mtd: nand: omap: add support for hardware BCH ecc
  ARM: OMAP3: gpmc: add BCH ecc api and modes
  mtd: nand: check the return code of 'read_oob/read_oob_raw'
  mtd: nand: remove 'sndcmd' parameter of 'read_oob/read_oob_raw'
  mtd: m25p80: Add support for Winbond W25Q80BW
  jffs2: get rid of jffs2_sync_super
  jffs2: remove unnecessary GC pass on sync
  jffs2: remove unnecessary GC pass on umount
  jffs2: remove lock_super
  mtd: gpmi: add gpmi support for mx6q
  ...
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Pull mtd update from David Woodhouse:
 - More robust parsing especially of xattr data in JFFS2
 - Updates to mxc_nand and gpmi drivers to support new boards and device tree
 - Improve consistency of information about ECC strength in NAND devices
 - Clean up partition handling of plat_nand
 - Support NAND drivers without dedicated access to OOB area
 - BCH hardware ECC support for OMAP
 - Other fixes and cleanups, and a few new device IDs

Fixed trivial conflict in drivers/mtd/nand/gpmi-nand/gpmi-nand.c due to
added include files next to each other.

* tag 'for-linus-3.5-20120601' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (75 commits)
  mtd: mxc_nand: move ecc strengh setup before nand_scan_tail
  mtd: block2mtd: fix recursive call of mtd_writev
  mtd: gpmi-nand: define ecc.strength
  mtd: of_parts: fix breakage in Kconfig
  mtd: nand: fix scan_read_raw_oob
  mtd: docg3 fix in-middle of blocks reads
  mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: Slight cleanup of fixup messages
  mtd: add fixup for S29NS512P NOR flash.
  jffs2: allow to complete xattr integrity check on first GC scan
  jffs2: allow to discriminate between recoverable and non-recoverable errors
  mtd: nand: omap: add support for hardware BCH ecc
  ARM: OMAP3: gpmc: add BCH ecc api and modes
  mtd: nand: check the return code of 'read_oob/read_oob_raw'
  mtd: nand: remove 'sndcmd' parameter of 'read_oob/read_oob_raw'
  mtd: m25p80: Add support for Winbond W25Q80BW
  jffs2: get rid of jffs2_sync_super
  jffs2: remove unnecessary GC pass on sync
  jffs2: remove unnecessary GC pass on umount
  jffs2: remove lock_super
  mtd: gpmi: add gpmi support for mx6q
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T18:53:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-01T18:53:44+00:00</published>
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Pull third pile of signal handling patches from Al Viro:
 "This time it's mostly helpers and conversions to them; there's a lot
  of stuff remaining in the tree, but that'll either go in -rc2
  (isolated bug fixes, ideally via arch maintainers' trees) or will sit
  there until the next cycle."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  x86: get rid of calling do_notify_resume() when returning to kernel mode
  blackfin: check __get_user() return value
  whack-a-mole with TIF_FREEZE
  FRV: Optimise the system call exit path in entry.S [ver #2]
  FRV: Shrink TIF_WORK_MASK [ver #2]
  FRV: Prevent syscall exit tracing and notify_resume at end of kernel exceptions
  new helper: signal_delivered()
  powerpc: get rid of restore_sigmask()
  most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set
  set_restore_sigmask() is never called without SIGPENDING (and never should be)
  TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK can be set only when TIF_SIGPENDING is set
  don't call try_to_freeze() from do_signal()
  pull clearing RESTORE_SIGMASK into block_sigmask()
  sh64: failure to build sigframe != signal without handler
  openrisc: tracehook_signal_handler() is supposed to be called on success
  new helper: sigmask_to_save()
  new helper: restore_saved_sigmask()
  new helpers: {clear,test,test_and_clear}_restore_sigmask()
  HAVE_RESTORE_SIGMASK is defined on all architectures now
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Pull third pile of signal handling patches from Al Viro:
 "This time it's mostly helpers and conversions to them; there's a lot
  of stuff remaining in the tree, but that'll either go in -rc2
  (isolated bug fixes, ideally via arch maintainers' trees) or will sit
  there until the next cycle."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  x86: get rid of calling do_notify_resume() when returning to kernel mode
  blackfin: check __get_user() return value
  whack-a-mole with TIF_FREEZE
  FRV: Optimise the system call exit path in entry.S [ver #2]
  FRV: Shrink TIF_WORK_MASK [ver #2]
  FRV: Prevent syscall exit tracing and notify_resume at end of kernel exceptions
  new helper: signal_delivered()
  powerpc: get rid of restore_sigmask()
  most of set_current_blocked() callers want SIGKILL/SIGSTOP removed from set
  set_restore_sigmask() is never called without SIGPENDING (and never should be)
  TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK can be set only when TIF_SIGPENDING is set
  don't call try_to_freeze() from do_signal()
  pull clearing RESTORE_SIGMASK into block_sigmask()
  sh64: failure to build sigframe != signal without handler
  openrisc: tracehook_signal_handler() is supposed to be called on success
  new helper: sigmask_to_save()
  new helper: restore_saved_sigmask()
  new helpers: {clear,test,test_and_clear}_restore_sigmask()
  HAVE_RESTORE_SIGMASK is defined on all architectures now
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T17:34:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-01T17:34:35+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
 "A lot of misc stuff.  The obvious groups:
   * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
     -&gt;d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
     all work in that area.
   * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
     area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
     general.
   * -&gt;encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
     mm/cleancache.c gone.
   * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
   * parts of Artem's -&gt;s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
   * -&gt;update_time() work from Josef.
   * other bits and pieces all over the place.

  Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
  signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
  nfs: don't open in -&gt;d_revalidate
  vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
  vfs: split __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_last() common post lookup
  vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
  vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
  vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
  vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
  vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
  vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
  vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
  vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
  vfs: split do_lookup()
  Btrfs: move over to use -&gt;update_time
  fs: introduce inode operation -&gt;update_time
  reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
  reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
  ...
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Pull vfs changes from Al Viro.
 "A lot of misc stuff.  The obvious groups:
   * Miklos' atomic_open series; kills the damn abuse of
     -&gt;d_revalidate() by NFS, which was the major stumbling block for
     all work in that area.
   * ripping security_file_mmap() and dealing with deadlocks in the
     area; sanitizing the neighborhood of vm_mmap()/vm_munmap() in
     general.
   * -&gt;encode_fh() switched to saner API; insane fake dentry in
     mm/cleancache.c gone.
   * assorted annotations in fs (endianness, __user)
   * parts of Artem's -&gt;s_dirty work (jff2 and reiserfs parts)
   * -&gt;update_time() work from Josef.
   * other bits and pieces all over the place.

  Normally it would've been in two or three pull requests, but
  signal.git stuff had eaten a lot of time during this cycle ;-/"

Fix up trivial conflicts in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt (the
'truncate_range' inode method was removed by the VM changes, the VFS
update adds an 'update_time()' method), and in fs/btrfs/ulist.[ch] (due
to sparse fix added twice, with other changes nearby).

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (95 commits)
  nfs: don't open in -&gt;d_revalidate
  vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): don't throw away file on error
  vfs: nameidata_to_filp(): inline __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_dentry_open(): don't put filp
  vfs: split __dentry_open()
  vfs: do_last() common post lookup
  vfs: do_last(): add audit_inode before open
  vfs: do_last(): only return EISDIR for O_CREAT
  vfs: do_last(): check LOOKUP_DIRECTORY
  vfs: do_last(): make ENOENT exit RCU safe
  vfs: make follow_link check RCU safe
  vfs: do_last(): use inode variable
  vfs: do_last(): inline walk_component()
  vfs: do_last(): make exit RCU safe
  vfs: split do_lookup()
  Btrfs: move over to use -&gt;update_time
  fs: introduce inode operation -&gt;update_time
  reiserfs: get rid of resierfs_sync_super
  reiserfs: mark the superblock as dirty a bit later
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T17:12:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-01T17:12:15+00:00</published>
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Pull Ext4 updates from Theodore Ts'o:
 "The major new feature added in this update is Darrick J Wong's
  metadata checksum feature, which adds crc32 checksums to ext4's
  metadata fields.

  There is also the usual set of cleanups and bug fixes."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (44 commits)
  ext4: hole-punch use truncate_pagecache_range
  jbd2: use kmem_cache_zalloc wrapper instead of flag
  ext4: remove mb_groups before tearing down the buddy_cache
  ext4: add ext4_mb_unload_buddy in the error path
  ext4: don't trash state flags in EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS
  ext4: let getattr report the right blocks in delalloc+bigalloc
  ext4: add missing save_error_info() to ext4_error()
  ext4: add debugging trigger for ext4_error()
  ext4: protect group inode free counting with group lock
  ext4: use consistent ssize_t type in ext4_file_write()
  ext4: fix format flag in ext4_ext_binsearch_idx()
  ext4: cleanup in ext4_discard_allocated_blocks()
  ext4: return ENOMEM when mounts fail due to lack of memory
  ext4: remove redundundant "(char *) bh-&gt;b_data" casts
  ext4: disallow hard-linked directory in ext4_lookup
  ext4: fix potential integer overflow in alloc_flex_gd()
  ext4: remove needs_recovery in ext4_mb_init()
  ext4: force ro mount if ext4_setup_super() fails
  ext4: fix potential NULL dereference in ext4_free_inodes_counts()
  ext4/jbd2: add metadata checksumming to the list of supported features
  ...
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Pull Ext4 updates from Theodore Ts'o:
 "The major new feature added in this update is Darrick J Wong's
  metadata checksum feature, which adds crc32 checksums to ext4's
  metadata fields.

  There is also the usual set of cleanups and bug fixes."

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (44 commits)
  ext4: hole-punch use truncate_pagecache_range
  jbd2: use kmem_cache_zalloc wrapper instead of flag
  ext4: remove mb_groups before tearing down the buddy_cache
  ext4: add ext4_mb_unload_buddy in the error path
  ext4: don't trash state flags in EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS
  ext4: let getattr report the right blocks in delalloc+bigalloc
  ext4: add missing save_error_info() to ext4_error()
  ext4: add debugging trigger for ext4_error()
  ext4: protect group inode free counting with group lock
  ext4: use consistent ssize_t type in ext4_file_write()
  ext4: fix format flag in ext4_ext_binsearch_idx()
  ext4: cleanup in ext4_discard_allocated_blocks()
  ext4: return ENOMEM when mounts fail due to lack of memory
  ext4: remove redundundant "(char *) bh-&gt;b_data" casts
  ext4: disallow hard-linked directory in ext4_lookup
  ext4: fix potential integer overflow in alloc_flex_gd()
  ext4: remove needs_recovery in ext4_mb_init()
  ext4: force ro mount if ext4_setup_super() fails
  ext4: fix potential NULL dereference in ext4_free_inodes_counts()
  ext4/jbd2: add metadata checksumming to the list of supported features
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>HAVE_RESTORE_SIGMASK is defined on all architectures now</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T16:58:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-26T22:31:00+00:00</published>
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Everyone either defines it in arch thread_info.h or has TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
and picks default set_restore_sigmask() in linux/thread_info.h.  Kill the
ifdefs, slap #error in linux/thread_info.h to catch breakage when new ones
get merged.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Everyone either defines it in arch thread_info.h or has TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
and picks default set_restore_sigmask() in linux/thread_info.h.  Kill the
ifdefs, slap #error in linux/thread_info.h to catch breakage when new ones
get merged.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>nfs: don't open in -&gt;d_revalidate</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T16:12:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-21T15:30:20+00:00</published>
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NFSv4 can't do reliable opens in d_revalidate, since it cannot know whether a
mount needs to be followed or not.  It does check d_mountpoint() on the dentry,
which can result in a weird error if the VFS found that the mount does not in
fact need to be followed, e.g.:

  # mount --bind /mnt/nfs /mnt/nfs-clone
  # echo something &gt; /mnt/nfs/tmp/bar
  # echo x &gt; /tmp/file
  # mount --bind /tmp/file /mnt/nfs-clone/tmp/bar
  # cat  /mnt/nfs/tmp/bar
  cat: /mnt/nfs/tmp/bar: Not a directory

Which should, by any sane filesystem, result in "something" being printed.

So instead do the open in f_op-&gt;open() and in the unlikely case that the cached
dentry turned out to be invalid, drop the dentry and return EOPENSTALE to let
the VFS retry.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
CC: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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NFSv4 can't do reliable opens in d_revalidate, since it cannot know whether a
mount needs to be followed or not.  It does check d_mountpoint() on the dentry,
which can result in a weird error if the VFS found that the mount does not in
fact need to be followed, e.g.:

  # mount --bind /mnt/nfs /mnt/nfs-clone
  # echo something &gt; /mnt/nfs/tmp/bar
  # echo x &gt; /tmp/file
  # mount --bind /tmp/file /mnt/nfs-clone/tmp/bar
  # cat  /mnt/nfs/tmp/bar
  cat: /mnt/nfs/tmp/bar: Not a directory

Which should, by any sane filesystem, result in "something" being printed.

So instead do the open in f_op-&gt;open() and in the unlikely case that the cached
dentry turned out to be invalid, drop the dentry and return EOPENSTALE to let
the VFS retry.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
CC: Trond Myklebust &lt;Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>vfs: retry last component if opening stale dentry</title>
<updated>2012-06-01T16:12:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2012-05-21T15:30:19+00:00</published>
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NFS optimizes away d_revalidates for last component of open.  This means that
open itself can find the dentry stale.

This patch allows the filesystem to return EOPENSTALE and the VFS will retry the
lookup on just the last component if possible.

If the lookup was done using RCU mode, including the last component, then this
is not possible since the parent dentry is lost.  In this case fall back to
non-RCU lookup.  Currently this is not used since NFS will always leave RCU
mode.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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NFS optimizes away d_revalidates for last component of open.  This means that
open itself can find the dentry stale.

This patch allows the filesystem to return EOPENSTALE and the VFS will retry the
lookup on just the last component if possible.

If the lookup was done using RCU mode, including the last component, then this
is not possible since the parent dentry is lost.  In this case fall back to
non-RCU lookup.  Currently this is not used since NFS will always leave RCU
mode.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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