From: Trond Myklebust Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:46:53 -0400 NFS: don't cache the verifer across ->lookup() calls If the ->lookup() call causes the directory verifier to change, then there is still no need to use the old verifier, since our dentry has been verified. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 8 ++------ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index d58bfb8..7cd2697 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -735,7 +735,6 @@ static int nfs_lookup_revalidate(struct dentry * dentry, struct nameidata *nd) int error; struct nfs_fh fhandle; struct nfs_fattr fattr; - unsigned long verifier; parent = dget_parent(dentry); lock_kernel(); @@ -770,7 +769,6 @@ static int nfs_lookup_revalidate(struct dentry * dentry, struct nameidata *nd) if (NFS_STALE(inode)) goto out_bad; - verifier = nfs_save_change_attribute(dir); error = NFS_PROTO(dir)->lookup(dir, &dentry->d_name, &fhandle, &fattr); if (error) goto out_bad; @@ -779,7 +777,7 @@ static int nfs_lookup_revalidate(struct dentry * dentry, struct nameidata *nd) if ((error = nfs_refresh_inode(inode, &fattr)) != 0) goto out_bad; - nfs_set_verifier(dentry, verifier); + nfs_set_verifier(dentry, nfs_save_change_attribute(dir)); out_valid: unlock_kernel(); dput(parent); @@ -1048,7 +1046,6 @@ static int nfs_open_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd) struct dentry *parent = NULL; struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode; struct inode *dir; - unsigned long verifier; int openflags, ret = 0; parent = dget_parent(dentry); @@ -1076,10 +1073,9 @@ static int nfs_open_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd) * change attribute *before* we do the RPC call. */ lock_kernel(); - verifier = nfs_save_change_attribute(dir); ret = nfs4_open_revalidate(dir, dentry, openflags, nd); if (ret == 1) - nfs_set_verifier(dentry, verifier); + nfs_set_verifier(dentry, nfs_save_change_attribute(dir)); unlock_kernel(); out: dput(parent);