REPOST patch 30/38: SERVER: allow type==0 in nfsd_unlink()

From: Kendrick M. Smith (kmsmith@umich.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 14 2002 - 15:51:12 EST


If nfsd_unlink() is called with @type equal to 0, then let it do the
right thing regardless of the type of the file being unlinked. This
is needed for the NFSv4 REMOVE operation, which works for any type of
file, even directories.

--- old/fs/nfsd/vfs.c Sun Aug 11 23:08:03 2002
+++ new/fs/nfsd/vfs.c Sun Aug 11 23:08:24 2002
@@ -1329,6 +1329,9 @@ nfsd_unlink(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, stru
                 goto out;
         }

+ if (!type)
+ type = rdentry->d_inode->i_mode & S_IFMT;
+
         if (type != S_IFDIR) { /* It's UNLINK */
 #ifdef MSNFS
                 if ((fhp->fh_export->ex_flags & NFSEXP_MSNFS) &&

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