Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Currently we have few issues with P9_STATS_GEN:
> 
>  - We don't try to read st_gen anything except files or directories, but
>    still set P9_STATS_GEN bit in st_result_mask. It may mislead client:
>    we present garbage as valid st_gen.
> 
>  - If we failed to get valid st_gen with ENOTTY, we ignore error, but
>    still set P9_STATS_GEN bit in st_result_mask.
> 
>  - If we failed to get valid st_gen with any other errno, we fail
>    getattr altogether. It's excessive: we block valid client use-cases,
>    like chdir(2) to non-readable directory with execution bit set.
> 
> The patch fixes these issues and cleanup code a bit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov

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