On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 05:30:13AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> That went into the tree back in 2005; the comment used to be true for
> predecessor of simple_fill_super() that happened to live in nfsd; that one
> didn't take care to skip the array entries with NULL ->name, so it could
> not tolerate any gaps. That had been fixed in 2003 when nfsd_fill_super()
> had been abstracted into simple_fill_super(); if Neil's patch lived out
> of tree during that time, he probably replaced the name of function when
> rebasing it and didn't notice that restriction in question was no longer
> there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 4 ----
> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
> index 3e15b72f421d..26a25e40c451 100644
> --- a/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
> +++ b/fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c
> @@ -48,10 +48,6 @@ enum {
> NFSD_MaxBlkSize,
> NFSD_MaxConnections,
> NFSD_Filecache,
> - /*
> - * The below MUST come last. Otherwise we leave a hole in nfsd_files[]
> - * with !CONFIG_NFSD_V4 and simple_fill_super() goes oops
> - */
> #ifdef CONFIG_NFSD_V4
> NFSD_Leasetime,
> NFSD_Gracetime,
> --
> 2.39.2
>
>
--
Chuck Lever
