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From: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
To: ASANO Masahiro <masano@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, matthew@wil.cx,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix posix lock on NFS
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:39:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43BAD2EC.2030807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051222.132454.1025208517.masano@tnes.nec.co.jp>

ASANO Masahiro wrote:

>---
>
>--- linux-2.6.15-rc6/fs/nfs/file.c.orig	2005-12-21 21:30:14.000000000 +0900
>+++ linux-2.6.15-rc6/fs/nfs/file.c	2005-12-21 21:42:16.000000000 +0900
>@@ -524,7 +524,8 @@ static int nfs_lock(struct file *filp, i
> 		return -EINVAL;
> 
> 	/* No mandatory locks over NFS */
>-	if ((inode->i_mode & (S_ISGID | S_IXGRP)) == S_ISGID)
>+	if ((inode->i_mode & (S_ISGID | S_IXGRP)) == S_ISGID &&
>+	    fl->fl_type != F_UNLCK)
> 		return -ENOLCK;
> 
> 	if (IS_GETLK(cmd))
>

Just out of curiosity, what is this if() statement intended to protect?
For locking purposes, why would the client care if the file has the
mandatory lock bits set?

    Thanx...

       ps

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-03 19:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-22  4:24 [PATCH] fix posix lock on NFS ASANO Masahiro
2006-01-03 19:39 ` Peter Staubach [this message]
2006-01-03 19:46   ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-01-03 20:09     ` Peter Staubach
2006-01-04  1:24       ` Trond Myklebust
2006-01-04 14:16         ` Peter Staubach

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