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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2013-10-17 03:20:19 +0200
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2013-11-09 06:16:37 +0100
commite4b70ebeeba954cb9cbcf0f19016bb9c2b8711c1 (patch)
treecb2f04bd4e8b23fcd5d94235f310c95b472253ac /fs/exportfs
parentexportfs: stop retrying once we race with rename/remove (diff)
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exportfs: eliminate unused "noprogress" counter
Note this counter is now being set to 0 on every pass through the loop, so it no longer serves any useful purpose. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/exportfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/exportfs/expfs.c15
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exportfs/expfs.c b/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
index 6b5ddd5492bc..d8ba88ac10e5 100644
--- a/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
+++ b/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
@@ -145,18 +145,9 @@ static void clear_disconnected(struct dentry *dentry)
static int
reconnect_path(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *target_dir, char *nbuf)
{
- int noprogress = 0;
int err = -ESTALE;
- /*
- * It is possible that a confused file system might not let us complete
- * the path to the root. For example, if get_parent returns a directory
- * in which we cannot find a name for the child. While this implies a
- * very sick filesystem we don't want it to cause knfsd to spin. Hence
- * the noprogress counter. If we go through the loop 10 times (2 is
- * probably enough) without getting anywhere, we just give up
- */
- while (target_dir->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED && noprogress++ < 10) {
+ while (target_dir->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED) {
struct dentry *pd = find_disconnected_root(target_dir);
BUG_ON(pd == mnt->mnt_sb->s_root);
@@ -230,9 +221,7 @@ reconnect_path(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *target_dir, char *nbuf)
*/
dput(npd);
dput(ppd);
- if (npd == pd)
- noprogress = 0;
- else
+ if (npd != pd)
goto out_reconnected;
if (IS_ROOT(pd)) {
/* something went wrong, we have to give up */