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Amir Goldstein committed 8a22efa15b4
ovl: do not try to reconnect a disconnected origin dentry On lookup of non directory, we try to decode the origin file handle stored in upper inode. The origin file handle is supposed to be decoded to a disconnected non-dir dentry, which is fine, because we only need the lower inode of a copy up origin. However, if the origin file handle somehow turns out to be a directory we pay the expensive cost of reconnecting the directory dentry, only to get a mismatch file type and drop the dentry. Optimize this case by explicitly opting out of reconnecting the dentry. Opting-out of reconnect is done by passing a NULL acceptable callback to exportfs_decode_fh(). While the case described above is a strange corner case that does not really need to be optimized, the API added for this optimization will be used by a following patch to optimize a more common case of decoding an overlayfs file handle. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>