VFS/knfsd: Teach dentry_create() to use atomic_open()

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While knfsd offers combined exclusive create and open results to clients,
on some filesystems those results may not be atomic.  This behavior can be
observed.  For example, an open O_CREAT with mode 0 will succeed in creating
the file but unexpectedly return -EACCES from vfs_open().

Additionally reducing the number of remote RPC calls required for O_CREAT
on network filesystem provides a performance benefit in the open path.

Teach knfsd's helper dentry_create() to use atomic_open() for filesystems
that support it.  The previously const @path is passed up to atomic_open()
and may be modified depending on whether an existing entry was found or if
the atomic_open() returned an error and consumed the passed-in dentry.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Coddington <bcodding@hammerspace.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8e449bfb64ab055abb9fd82641a171531415a88c.1764259052.git.bcodding@hammerspace.com
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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Benjamin Coddington 2025-11-27 11:02:05 -05:00 • committed by Christian Brauner

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