3 files changed, 46 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index a8bd28cde7e2..f23f455be42b 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1136,6 +1136,45 @@ out_error:
 }
 
 /*
+ * A weaker form of d_revalidate for revalidating just the dentry->d_inode
+ * when we don't really care about the dentry name. This is called when a
+ * pathwalk ends on a dentry that was not found via a normal lookup in the
+ * parent dir (e.g.: ".", "..", procfs symlinks or mountpoint traversals).
+ *
+ * In this situation, we just want to verify that the inode itself is OK
+ * since the dentry might have changed on the server.
+ */
+static int nfs_weak_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
+{
+	int error;
+	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
+
+	/*
+	 * I believe we can only get a negative dentry here in the case of a
+	 * procfs-style symlink. Just assume it's correct for now, but we may
+	 * eventually need to do something more here.
+	 */
+	if (!inode) {
+		dfprintk(LOOKUPCACHE, "%s: %s/%s has negative inode\n",
+				__func__, dentry->d_parent->d_name.name,
+				dentry->d_name.name);
+		return 1;
+	}
+
+	if (is_bad_inode(inode)) {
+		dfprintk(LOOKUPCACHE, "%s: %s/%s has dud inode\n",
+				__func__, dentry->d_parent->d_name.name,
+				dentry->d_name.name);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	error = nfs_revalidate_inode(NFS_SERVER(inode), inode);
+	dfprintk(LOOKUPCACHE, "NFS: %s: inode %lu is %s\n",
+			__func__, inode->i_ino, error ? "invalid" : "valid");
+	return !error;
+}
+
+/*
  * This is called from dput() when d_count is going to 0.
  */
 static int nfs_dentry_delete(const struct dentry *dentry)
@@ -1202,6 +1241,7 @@ static void nfs_d_release(struct dentry *dentry)
 
 const struct dentry_operations nfs_dentry_operations = {
 	.d_revalidate	= nfs_lookup_revalidate,
+	.d_weak_revalidate	= nfs_weak_revalidate,
 	.d_delete	= nfs_dentry_delete,
 	.d_iput		= nfs_dentry_iput,
 	.d_automount	= nfs_d_automount,
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4super.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4super.c
index 84d2e9e2f313..569b166cc050 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4super.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4super.c
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ static struct file_system_type nfs4_remote_fs_type = {
 	.name		= "nfs4",
 	.mount		= nfs4_remote_mount,
 	.kill_sb	= nfs_kill_super,
-	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_REVAL_DOT|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
+	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
 };
 
 static struct file_system_type nfs4_remote_referral_fs_type = {
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ static struct file_system_type nfs4_remote_referral_fs_type = {
 	.name		= "nfs4",
 	.mount		= nfs4_remote_referral_mount,
 	.kill_sb	= nfs_kill_super,
-	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_REVAL_DOT|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
+	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
 };
 
 struct file_system_type nfs4_referral_fs_type = {
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ struct file_system_type nfs4_referral_fs_type = {
 	.name		= "nfs4",
 	.mount		= nfs4_referral_mount,
 	.kill_sb	= nfs_kill_super,
-	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_REVAL_DOT|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
+	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
 };
 
 static const struct super_operations nfs4_sops = {
diff --git a/fs/nfs/super.c b/fs/nfs/super.c
index 2e7e8c878e5d..92acc26f9c5f 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/super.c
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ struct file_system_type nfs_fs_type = {
 	.name		= "nfs",
 	.mount		= nfs_fs_mount,
 	.kill_sb	= nfs_kill_super,
-	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_REVAL_DOT|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
+	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs_fs_type);
 
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@ struct file_system_type nfs_xdev_fs_type = {
 	.name		= "nfs",
 	.mount		= nfs_xdev_mount,
 	.kill_sb	= nfs_kill_super,
-	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_REVAL_DOT|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
+	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
 };
 
 const struct super_operations nfs_sops = {
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ struct file_system_type nfs4_fs_type = {
 	.name		= "nfs4",
 	.mount		= nfs_fs_mount,
 	.kill_sb	= nfs_kill_super,
-	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_REVAL_DOT|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
+	.fs_flags	= FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE|FS_BINARY_MOUNTDATA,
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(nfs4_fs_type);