"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shute...@linux.intel.com> writes:
> 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> > > Ping? > I am hoping that this will go to upstream directly without me doing a pull request ? Anthony, let me know if this need anything to be done from my side -aneesh
