exportfs: Return the minimum required handle size
The exportfs encode handle function should return the minimum required
handle size. This helps user to find out the handle size by passing 0
handle size in the first step and then redoing to the call again with
the returned handle size value.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/exportfs/expfs.c b/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
index 4b68257..cfe5573 100644
--- a/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
+++ b/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
@@ -320,9 +320,14 @@
struct inode * inode = dentry->d_inode;
int len = *max_len;
int type = FILEID_INO32_GEN;
-
- if (len < 2 || (connectable && len < 4))
+
+ if (connectable && (len < 4)) {
+ *max_len = 4;
return 255;
+ } else if (len < 2) {
+ *max_len = 2;
+ return 255;
+ }
len = 2;
fid->i32.ino = inode->i_ino;