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/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_export.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_export.c
index fc0114da7fdd..f4f878fc0083 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_export.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_export.c
@@ -89,8 +89,10 @@ xfs_fs_encode_fh(
          * 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) {