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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-01-29 18:43:25 +0530
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-03-14 09:15:28 -0400
commit5fe0c2378884e68beb532f5890cc0e3539ac747b (patch)
treebe25414052184e146049ea6466854366559d5528 /mm/shmem.c
parentc8b91accfa1059d5565443193d89572eca2f5dd6 (diff)
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exportfs: Return the minimum required handle size
The exportfs encode handle function should return the minimum required handle size. This helps user to find out the handle size by passing 0 handle size in the first step and then redoing to the call again with the returned handle size value. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index 5ee67c9..3437b65 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -2144,8 +2144,10 @@ static int shmem_encode_fh(struct dentry *dentry, __u32 *fh, int *len,
{
struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
- if (*len < 3)
+ if (*len < 3) {
+ *len = 3;
return 255;
+ }
if (inode_unhashed(inode)) {
/* Unfortunately insert_inode_hash is not idempotent,
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