Re: [PATCH] exportfs: fix incorrect EACCES in reconnect_path()

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On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 05:16:46PM +0200, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> A privileged process on an NFS client which drops privileges after using
> them to change the current working directory, will experience incorrect
> EACCES after an NFS server reboot. This problem can also occur after
> memory pressure on the server, particularly when the client side is
> quiet for some time.
> 
> This patch removes the x-bit check during dentry tree reconstruction at
> the server by exportfs on behalf of nfsd.

I'm still against adding this crap, and even when I get overruled that
doesn't make the comments on lookup_one_noperm any less true, not does
it give you a permit to break the kerneldoc generation.

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