tentatively merged to cifs-2.6.git for-next pending more testing and review
rearranged order slightly to move patch 9 up (and added Cc: stable to that one)
On Sat, Nov 25, 2023 at 8:55 PM Paulo Alcantara <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> This series contains reparse point fixes and improvements for SMB2+:
>
> - Add support for creating character/block devices, sockets and fifos
> via NFS reparse points by default.
>
> - Add support for creating SMB symlinks via IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK
> reparse points.
>
> - smb2_compound_op()
>
> * allow up to MAX_COMPOUND(5) commands in a single compound request
> * introduce SMB2_OP_{GET,SET}_REPARSE commands
>
> - Optimisations for dentry revalidation and read/write of reparse
> points by reducing number of roundtrips.
>
> - Fix renaming and hardlinking of reparse points
>
> For people who pass 'mfsymlinks' and 'sfu' mount options, the
> implementation is expected to avoid creating reparse points at all.
>
> Volker Lendecke had suggested trying to create both SMB symlink and
> mfsymlink in a single compound request but this series doesn't have
> it. It could be implemented later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Fix missing mode bits for SMB symlinks (reported by Steve)
> - Fix uninitialised var warnings (reported by kernel test robot)
> - Add dentry reval optimisation for SMB3 POSIX query info as well
>
> ---
> Paulo Alcantara (9):
> smb: client: extend smb2_compound_op() to accept more commands
> smb: client: allow creating special files via reparse points
> smb: client: allow creating symlinks via reparse points
> smb: client: optimise reparse point querying
> smb: client: fix renaming of reparse points
> smb: client: fix hardlinking of reparse points
> smb: client: cleanup smb2_query_reparse_point()
> smb: client: optimise dentry revalidation for reparse points
> smb: client: fix missing mode bits for SMB symlinks
>
> fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h | 47 +-
> fs/smb/client/cifsproto.h | 30 +-
> fs/smb/client/cifssmb.c | 17 +-
> fs/smb/client/dir.c | 7 +-
> fs/smb/client/file.c | 10 +-
> fs/smb/client/inode.c | 98 ++--
> fs/smb/client/link.c | 29 +-
> fs/smb/client/smb2glob.h | 26 +-
> fs/smb/client/smb2inode.c | 1054 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> fs/smb/client/smb2ops.c | 297 ++++++-----
> fs/smb/client/smb2proto.h | 29 +-
> fs/smb/client/trace.h | 7 +-
> 12 files changed, 997 insertions(+), 654 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.43.0
>
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Thanks,
Steve
