The old cifs_revalidate logic always revalidated hardlinked inodes.
This hack allowed CIFS to pass some connectathon tests when server inode
numbers aren't used (basic test7, in particular).
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
if (time_after_eq(jiffies, cifs_i->time + HZ))
return true;
+ /* hardlinked files w/ noserverino get "special" treatment */
+ if (!(CIFS_SB(inode->i_sb)->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_SERVER_INUM) &&
+ S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && inode->i_nlink != 1)
+ return true;
+
return false;
}