On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 08:20:52AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Hmm. Iirc (and it's possible that I don't) the original reason for the > whole kmem_ptr_validate() was for nfsd sending dentry pointers back > and forth as part of the FH. If it did that it's been a long time ago, pre-2.4 at least. In addition to that since the introduction of export operations we can't NFS-export either ncpfs or smbfs anyway. -- 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