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>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index 9e3f68cc1bd1..051b1a084528 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -637,8 +637,10 @@ static int fuse_encode_fh(struct dentry *dentry, u32 *fh, int *max_len,
         u64 nodeid;
         u32 generation;
 
-        if (*max_len < len)
+        if (*max_len < len) {
+                *max_len = len;
                 return  255;
+        }
 
         nodeid = get_fuse_inode(inode)->nodeid;
         generation = inode->i_generation;