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/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_export.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_export.c
index fc0114d..f4f878f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_export.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_export.c
@@ -89,8 +89,10 @@
* seven combinations work. The real answer is "don't use v2".
*/
len = xfs_fileid_length(fileid_type);
- if (*max_len < len)
+ if (*max_len < len) {
+ *max_len = len;
return 255;
+ }
*max_len = len;
switch (fileid_type) {