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| author | Aneesh Kumar K.V | 2011-01-29 14:13:25 +0100 |
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| committer | Al Viro | 2011-03-14 14:15:28 +0100 |
| commit | 5fe0c2378884e68beb532f5890cc0e3539ac747b (patch) | |
| tree | be25414052184e146049ea6466854366559d5528 /mm/shmem.c | |
| parent | clean statfs-like syscalls up (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/shmem.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/shmem.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c index 5ee67c990602..3437b65d6d6e 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, |