nfsd: don't fail unchecked creates of non-special files
authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Mon, 9 Apr 2012 22:06:49 +0000 (18:06 -0400)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Fri, 11 May 2012 12:14:16 +0000 (13:14 +0100)
commit4ce56133a793c97f5995181504ca9a16146a521f
treeef014e0dd847df4e38efafbe962c2d970bad2976
parent205648388f15b1ccf92b09ba0cf141cdd62bf711
nfsd: don't fail unchecked creates of non-special files

commit 9dc4e6c4d1182d34604ea40fef641775f5b15456 upstream.

Allow a v3 unchecked open of a non-regular file succeed as if it were a
lookup; typically a client in such a case will want to fall back on a
local open, so succeeding and giving it the filehandle is more useful
than failing with nfserr_exist, which makes it appear that nothing at
all exists by that name.

Similarly for v4, on an open-create, return the same errors we would on
an attempt to open a non-regular file, instead of returning
nfserr_exist.

This fixes a problem found doing a v4 open of a symlink with
O_RDONLY|O_CREAT, which resulted in the current client returning EEXIST.

Thanks also to Trond for analysis.

Reported-by: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com>
Tested-by: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: use &resfh, not resfh]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c
fs/nfsd/vfs.c