Re: [PATCH] cifs: remove bogus remapping of error in cifs_filldir()

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On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 10:26:08 -0600
> Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > As the FIXME points out correctly, now filldir() itself returns -EOVERFLOW if
>> > it not possible to represent the inode number supplied by the filesystem in
>> > the field provided by userspace.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@xxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> >  fs/cifs/readdir.c |   12 ------------
>> >  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>> >
>> > diff --git a/fs/cifs/readdir.c b/fs/cifs/readdir.c
>> > index 32d300e..a73eb9f 100644
>> > --- a/fs/cifs/readdir.c
>> > +++ b/fs/cifs/readdir.c
>> > @@ -759,18 +759,6 @@ static int cifs_filldir(char *pfindEntry, struct file *file, filldir_t filldir,
>> >        rc = filldir(direntry, qstring.name, qstring.len, file->f_pos,
>> >                     ino, fattr.cf_dtype);
>> >
>> > -       /*
>> > -        * we can not return filldir errors to the caller since they are
>> > -        * "normal" when the stat blocksize is too small - we return remapped
>> > -        * error instead
>> > -        *
>> > -        * FIXME: This looks bogus. filldir returns -EOVERFLOW in the above
>> > -        * case already. Why should we be clobbering other errors from it?
>> > -        */
>> > -       if (rc) {
>> > -               cFYI(1, "filldir rc = %d", rc);
>> > -               rc = -EOVERFLOW;
>> > -       }
>> >        dput(tmp_dentry);
>> >        return rc;
>> >  }
>>
>> Makes sense - Any objections to pushing this upstream now.
>>
>
> No objection, but if you're going to take this, then please also take
> the three patches I sent on 11/22.

(and perhaps the fourth one, the RFC1001 name clean-up patch also?)

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