Currently, the s_root dentry doesn't get its d_op pointer set to
anything. This breaks lookups in the root of case-insensitive mounts
since that relies on having d_hash and d_compare routines that know to
treat the filename as case-insensitive.

cifs.ko has been broken this way for a long time, but commit 1c929cfe6
("switch cifs"), added a cryptic comment which is removed in the patch
below, which makes me wonder if this was done deliberately for some
reason. It's not clear to me why we'd want the s_root not to have d_op
set properly.

It may have something to do with d_automount or d_revalidate on the
root, but my suspicion in looking over the code is that Al was just
trying to preserve the existing behavior when changing this code over to
use s_d_op.

This patch changes it so that we set s_d_op before calling d_make_root
and removes the comment. I tested mounting, accessing and unmounting
several types of shares (including DFS referrals) and everything still
seemed to work OK afterward. I could be missing something however, so
please do let me know if I am.

Reported-by: Jan-Marek Glogowski <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Kent <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
---
 fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 11 +++++------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
index 4bdd547..85ea98d 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c
@@ -147,18 +147,17 @@ cifs_read_super(struct super_block *sb)
                goto out_no_root;
        }
 
+       if (cifs_sb_master_tcon(cifs_sb)->nocase)
+               sb->s_d_op = &cifs_ci_dentry_ops;
+       else
+               sb->s_d_op = &cifs_dentry_ops;
+
        sb->s_root = d_make_root(inode);
        if (!sb->s_root) {
                rc = -ENOMEM;
                goto out_no_root;
        }
 
-       /* do that *after* d_make_root() - we want NULL ->d_op for root here */
-       if (cifs_sb_master_tcon(cifs_sb)->nocase)
-               sb->s_d_op = &cifs_ci_dentry_ops;
-       else
-               sb->s_d_op = &cifs_dentry_ops;
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_NFSD_EXPORT
        if (cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_SERVER_INUM) {
                cifs_dbg(FYI, "export ops supported\n");
-- 
1.8.3.1

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