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    revalidate directories instiantiated via FIND_* in order to handle DFS referrals · 2a2c41c0
    Jeff Layton authored
    We've had a long-standing problem with DFS referral points. CIFS servers
    generally try to make them look like directories in FIND_FIRST/NEXT
    responses. When you go to try to do a FIND_FIRST on them though, the
    server will then (correctly) return STATUS_PATH_NOT_COVERED. Mostly this
    manifests as spurious EREMOTE errors back to userland.
    
    This patch attempts to fix this by marking directories that are
    discovered via FIND_FIRST/NEXT for revaldiation. When the lookup code
    runs across them again, we'll reissue a QPathInfo against them and that
    will make it chase the referral properly.
    
    There is some performance penalty involved here and no I haven't
    measured it -- it'll be highly dependent upon the workload and contents
    of the mounted share. To try and mitigate that though, the code only
    marks the inode for revalidation when it's possible to run across a DFS
    referral. i.e.: when the kernel has DFS support built in and the share
    is "in DFS"
    
    [At the Microsoft plugfest we noted that usually the DFS links had
    the REPARSE attribute tag enabled - DFS junctions are reparse points
    after all - so I just added a check for that flag too so the
    performance impact should be smaller - Steve]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarSachin Prabhu <sprabhu@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
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