Unionfs: fix oops bug in file_revalidate
authorErez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:03:42 +0000 (01:03 -0400)
committerErez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Tue, 11 Nov 2014 01:24:27 +0000 (20:24 -0500)
commitce7e09f08a041b5f8a00d2d91206d742bd97955d
tree1cb5fec4e35dc9e840caa8d5629d5c09fe2c77d2
parent6849e03ba1ee39ab2966f7cca0a26b8e7de68a78
Unionfs: fix oops bug in file_revalidate

Reverses commit "3e9b8b599aa6832e464f86872ca37840090de630" (in unionfs-3.1
tree) which did this:

   ``Unionfs: revalidate files which are open but unlinked

   Need to re-open the file if the starting dentry is on a higher priority
   branch than the currently opened file (which could happen when we ftruncate
   an opened, but unlinked file).''

That fix caused oopses in file_revalidate for some people.  So, I'm
reversing that old fix: it's possible that bug is already fixed thanks to
other code changes.  If not, we'll need to test and fix revalidation of
open/unlinked files differently and carefully.

Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
fs/unionfs/commonfops.c