NFS: allow close-to-open cache semantics to apply to root of NFS filesystem

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To obey NFS cache semantics, the client must verify the cached
attributes when a file is opened.  In most cases this is done by a call to
d_validate as one of the last steps in path_walk.

However for the root of a filesystem, d_validate is only ever called
on the mounted-on filesystem (except when the path ends '.' or '..').
So NFS has no chance to validate the attributes.

So, in nfs_opendir, we revalidate the attributes if the opened
directory is the mountpoint.  This may cause double-validation for "."
and ".." lookups, but that is better than missing regular /path/name
lookups completely.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

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Neil Brown 2010-08-10 10:20:05 -04:00 • committed by Trond Myklebust

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