Re: [PATCH 3/3] nfs: Store and use inode in nfs_open_context

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On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx>
>
> NFS translates the inode from the dentry and uses sb from the dentry
> parameters. However, using NFS in conjunction with overlayfs, the inodes
> associated with dentries may be associated with overlayfs as opposed
> to NFS. So, store inode in nfs_open_context and use d_select_inode()
> to translate dentry to inode.

I don't see how this helps. The dentry and dentry->d_sb that are
associated with the open context need to be NFS namespace objects,
otherwise all sorts of things, ranging from inode lookup to NFSv4
state recovery are going to break.

Trond
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