This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFSD: Deprecate NFS_OFFSET_MAX
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
nfsd-deprecate-nfs_offset_max.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 73d235a1675397016bd4d882ab60704275d31f0b
Author: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Jan 25 15:57:45 2022 -0500
NFSD: Deprecate NFS_OFFSET_MAX
[ Upstream commit c306d737691ef84305d4ed0d302c63db2932f0bb ]
NFS_OFFSET_MAX was introduced way back in Linux v2.3.y before there
was a kernel-wide OFFSET_MAX value. As a clean up, replace the last
few uses of it with its generic equivalent, and get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
index 2e47a07029f1d..0293b8d65f10f 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c
@@ -1060,7 +1060,7 @@ svcxdr_encode_entry3_common(struct nfsd3_readdirres *resp, const char *name,
return false;
/* cookie */
resp->cookie_offset = dirlist->len;
- if (xdr_stream_encode_u64(xdr, NFS_OFFSET_MAX) < 0)
+ if (xdr_stream_encode_u64(xdr, OFFSET_MAX) < 0)
return false;
return true;
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
index 4459722259fb2..19ddd80239944 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
@@ -3492,7 +3492,7 @@ nfsd4_encode_dirent(void *ccdv, const char *name, int namlen,
p = xdr_reserve_space(xdr, 3*4 + namlen);
if (!p)
goto fail;
- p = xdr_encode_hyper(p, NFS_OFFSET_MAX); /* offset of next entry */
+ p = xdr_encode_hyper(p, OFFSET_MAX); /* offset of next entry */
p = xdr_encode_array(p, name, namlen); /* name length & name */
nfserr = nfsd4_encode_dirent_fattr(xdr, cd, name, namlen);
diff --git a/include/linux/nfs.h b/include/linux/nfs.h
index 0dc7ad38a0da4..b06375e88e589 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs.h
@@ -36,14 +36,6 @@ static inline void nfs_copy_fh(struct nfs_fh *target, const struct nfs_fh *sourc
memcpy(target->data, source->data, source->size);
}
-
-/*
- * This is really a general kernel constant, but since nothing like
- * this is defined in the kernel headers, I have to do it here.
- */
-#define NFS_OFFSET_MAX ((__s64)((~(__u64)0) >> 1))
-
-
enum nfs3_stable_how {
NFS_UNSTABLE = 0,
NFS_DATA_SYNC = 1,
