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Commit 76894f3e authored by Paulo Alcantara's avatar Paulo Alcantara Committed by Steve French
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cifs: improve symlink handling for smb2+



When creating inode for symlink, the client used to send below
requests to fill it in:

    * create+query_info+close (STATUS_STOPPED_ON_SYMLINK)
    * create(+reparse_flag)+query_info+close (set file attrs)
    * create+ioctl(get_reparse)+close (query reparse tag)

and then for every access to the symlink dentry, the ->link() method
would send another:

    * create+ioctl(get_reparse)+close (parse symlink)

So, in order to improve:

    (i) Get rid of unnecessary roundtrips and then resolve symlinks as
	follows:

        * create+query_info+close (STATUS_STOPPED_ON_SYMLINK +
	                           parse symlink + get reparse tag)
        * create(+reparse_flag)+query_info+close (set file attrs)

    (ii) Set the resolved symlink target directly in inode->i_link and
         use simple_get_link() for ->link() to simply return it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRonnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
parent 977bb653
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