Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix up the NFS mmap code

From: Al Viro
Date: Fri Jan 08 2010 - 21:40:28 EST


On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:30:35AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> Interesting... There's nfs_update_inode(), but it ought to scream bloody
> murder on the type change (and its return value is ignore by nfs_fhget(),
> BTW).

Uh-oh... Just what will happen if we get FATTR_MODE without FATTR_TYPE,
BTW? AFAICS, the check for changed type won't trigger, but we will
get type bits in i_mode set to 0. Probably unrelated, but...
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