Re: [PATCH v3] 9p: retrieve fid from file when file instance exist.

[Dominique Martinet]

Jianyong Wu wrote on Fri, Jul 03, 2020:
> In the current setattr implementation in 9p, fid is always retrieved
> from dentry no matter file instance exists or not. Thus, there may be
> some info related to opened file instance dropped. So it's better
> to retrieve fid from file instance when it has passed to setattr.
> 
> for example:
> fd=open("tmp", O_RDWR);
> ftruncate(fd, 10);
> 
> The file context related with the fd will be lost as fid is
> retrieved from dentry, then the backend can't get the info of
> file context. It is against the original intention of user and
> may lead to bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianyong Wu <jianyong.wu@xxxxxxx>

ACK.
I've picked this up for tests, will push to linux-next when I finally
manage to find time for these...

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Dominique