From patchwork Mon May 17 11:18:56 2010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [1/3] cifs: always revalidate hardlinked inodes Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 01:18:56 -0000 From: Jeff Layton X-Patchwork-Id: 52785 Message-Id: <1274095138-3386-2-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> To: smfrench@gmail.com Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org The old cifs_revalidate logic always revalidated hardlinked inodes. This hack allowed CIFS to pass some connectathon tests when server inode numbers aren't used (basic test7, in particular). Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton --- fs/cifs/inode.c | 4 ++++ 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c index b35cb03..f52161a 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/inode.c +++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c @@ -1511,6 +1511,10 @@ cifs_inode_needs_reval(struct inode *inode) if (time_after_eq(jiffies, cifs_i->time + HZ)) return true; + /* hardlinked files get "special" treatment */ + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_nlink != 1) + return true; + return false; }