From f5a73672d1811f2fb1dcb62ca90ceb12b2050ae7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Brown Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:20:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] NFS: allow close-to-open cache semantics to apply to root of NFS filesystem To obey NFS cache semantics, the client must verify the cached attributes when a file is opened. In most cases this is done by a call to d_validate as one of the last steps in path_walk. However for the root of a filesystem, d_validate is only ever called on the mounted-on filesystem (except when the path ends '.' or '..'). So NFS has no chance to validate the attributes. So, in nfs_opendir, we revalidate the attributes if the opened directory is the mountpoint. This may cause double-validation for "." and ".." lookups, but that is better than missing regular /path/name lookups completely. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- Reading git-format-patch failed