[PATCH v2 0/2] Fixup lustre ll_getname

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From: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Some time ago Al Viro noticed that lustre ll_getname is broken.
At the time a patch was submitted to convert lustre to use
exported getname, that was rejected by hch on the grounds that
filesystem code sould not really be reimplementing their own
lookups which kind of made sense back then.

But upon further investigation it seems that ll_getname is
used in a different way, it only gets a single path name
component that is then shiped to the server for some operations.
Going through VFS here to do proper lookups is not really
all that good of an idea since dcache pollution is undesired
at the very least.

So these two patches drop one of the ll_getname users that
could be done in another way and fix up ll_getname to only
allocate a single pathname component buffer and properly check
copy from userspace return value.

Please consider.

Oleg Drokin (2):
  staging/lustre/llite: remove LL_IOC_REMOVE_ENTRY handler
  staging/lustre/llite: fix ll_getname

 .../lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_user.h     |  1 -
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/dir.c          | 50 ++++++----------------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)

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