These patches are intended to help reduce the number of false matches that cifs_iget does. They simply try to make the code do some extra checking of the cached inodes against the new file's attributes when a uniqueid matches one that's already in cache. I've tested these against samba and windows. They seem to work and help reduce the false positives that can cause server inode numbers to be disabled. This patchset is intended for 2.6.36. The patches are in the cifs-2.6.36 branch of my kernel.org tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/cifs-2.6.36 Jeff Layton (3): cifs: don't allow cifs_iget to match inodes of the wrong type cifs: use CreationTime like an i_generation field cifs: reduce false positives with inode aliasing serverino autodisable fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 2 + fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 2 + fs/cifs/inode.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- fs/cifs/readdir.c | 1 + 4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
