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Commit 66ffd113 authored by Jeff Layton's avatar Jeff Layton Committed by Steve French
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cifs: set sb->s_d_op before calling d_make_root()



Currently, the s_root dentry doesn't get its d_op pointer set to
anything. This breaks lookups in the root of case-insensitive mounts
since that relies on having d_hash and d_compare routines that know to
treat the filename as case-insensitive.

cifs.ko has been broken this way for a long time, but commit 1c929cfe
("switch cifs"), added a cryptic comment which is removed in the patch
below, which makes me wonder if this was done deliberately for some
reason. It's not clear to me why we'd want the s_root not to have d_op
set properly.

It may have something to do with d_automount or d_revalidate on the
root, but my suspicion in looking over the code is that Al was just
trying to preserve the existing behavior when changing this code over to
use s_d_op.

This patch changes it so that we set s_d_op before calling d_make_root
and removes the comment. I tested mounting, accessing and unmounting
several types of shares (including DFS referrals) and everything still
seemed to work OK afterward. I could be missing something however, so
please do let me know if I am.

Reported-by: default avatarJan-Marek Glogowski <glogow@fbihome.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
parent ba482029
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