The patch titled
nfsd: fix spurious error return from nfsd_create in async case
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
nfsd-fix-spurious-error-return-from-nfsd_create-in-async-case.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: nfsd: fix spurious error return from nfsd_create in async case
From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Commit 6264d69d7df654ca64f625e9409189a0e50734e9 modified the nfsd_create()
error handling in such a way that nfsd_create will usually return
nfserr_perm even when succesful, if the export has the async export option.
This introduced a regression that could cause mkdir() to always return a
permissions error, even though the directory in question was actually
succesfully created.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/nfsd/vfs.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/nfsd/vfs.c~nfsd-fix-spurious-error-return-from-nfsd_create-in-async-case fs/nfsd/vfs.c
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c~nfsd-fix-spurious-error-return-from-nfsd_create-in-async-case
+++ a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -1177,7 +1177,7 @@ nfsd_create(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, stru
/*
* Get the dir op function pointer.
*/
- err = nfserr_perm;
+ err = 0;
switch (type) {
case S_IFREG:
host_err = vfs_create(dirp, dchild, iap->ia_mode, NULL);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
nfsd4-reindent-do_open_lookup.patch
nfsd4-fix-open-create-permissions.patch
nfsd-fix-spurious-error-return-from-nfsd_create-in-async-case.patch
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