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* NFS: lookup supports alternate clientBryan Schumaker2011-03-24
| | | | | | | | | A later patch will need to perform a lookup using an alternate client with a different security flavor. This patch adds support for doing that on NFS v4. Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS move nfs_client initialization into nfs_get_clientAndy Adamson2011-03-11
| | | | | | | | Now nfs_get_client returns an nfs_client ready to be used no matter if it was found or created. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: readdir with vmapped pagesBryan Schumaker2010-10-23
| | | | | | | | | We can use vmapped pages to read more information from the network at once. This will reduce the number of calls needed to complete a readdir. Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@netapp.com> [trondmy: Added #include for linux/vmalloc.h> in fs/nfs/dir.c] Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Fix NFSv3 debugging messages in fs/nfs/nfs3proc.cChuck Lever2010-09-21
| | | | | | | Clean up. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* nfs: make sillyrename an async operationJeff Layton2010-09-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A synchronous rename can be interrupted by a SIGKILL. If that happens during a sillyrename operation, it's possible for the rename call to be sent to the server, but the task exits before processing the reply. If this happens, the sillyrenamed file won't get cleaned up during nfs_dentry_iput and the server is left with a dangling .nfs* file hanging around. Fix this problem by turning sillyrename into an asynchronous operation and have the task doing the sillyrename just wait on the reply. If the task is killed before the sillyrename completes, it'll still proceed to completion. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* nfs: standardize the rename response containerJeff Layton2010-09-17
| | | | | | | | | | Right now, v3 and v4 have their own variants. Create a standard struct that will work for v3 and v4. v2 doesn't get anything but a simple error and so isn't affected by this. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* nfs: standardize the rename args containerJeff Layton2010-09-17
| | | | | | | | | | Each NFS version has its own version of the rename args container. Standardize them on a common one that's identical to the one NFSv4 uses. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Clean up nfs4_proc_create()Trond Myklebust2010-09-17
| | | | | | | | Remove all remaining references to the struct nameidata from the low level NFS layers. Again pass down a partially initialised struct nfs_open_context when we want to do atomic open+create. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_rmdirTrond Myklebust2010-05-14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_proc_remove()Trond Myklebust2010-05-14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs3_proc_readlink()Trond Myklebust2010-05-14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_link()Trond Myklebust2010-05-14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs_readdir()Trond Myklebust2010-05-14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Reduce stack footprint of nfs3_proc_rename() and nfs4_proc_rename()Trond Myklebust2010-05-14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFSv4: Reduce stack footprint of nfs4_proc_access() and nfs3_proc_access()Trond Myklebust2010-05-14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Reduce the stack footprint of nfs_lookupTrond Myklebust2010-05-14
| | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo2010-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
* nfs: handle NFSv3 -EKEYEXPIRED errors as we would -EJUKEBOXJeff Layton2010-02-10
| | | | | | | | | | We're using -EKEYEXPIRED to indicate that a krb5 credcache contains an expired ticket and that we should have the NFS layer retry the RPC call instead of returning an error back to the caller. Handle this as we would an -EJUKEBOX error return. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* headers: utsname.h reduxAlexey Dobriyan2009-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | * remove asm/atomic.h inclusion from linux/utsname.h -- not needed after kref conversion * remove linux/utsname.h inclusion from files which do not need it NOTE: it looks like fs/binfmt_elf.c do not need utsname.h, however due to some personality stuff it _is_ needed -- cowardly leave ELF-related headers and files alone. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* NFS: out of date comment regarding O_EXCL above nfs3_proc_create()Harshula Jayasuriya2009-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hi Trond, Recently we were observing the behaviour difference between a 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernel with respect to O_EXCL. A comment from 2.4.x era, "For now, we don't implement O_EXCL." seems inaccurate in TOT. If so, here's a patch to remove the comment. This patch is against: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Signed-off-by: Harshula Jayasuriya <harshula@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-04-03
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: Remove two unneeded exports and make two symbols static in fs/mpage.c Cleanup after commit 585d3bc06f4ca57f975a5a1f698f65a45ea66225 Trim includes of fdtable.h Don't crap into descriptor table in binfmt_som Trim includes in binfmt_elf Don't mess with descriptor table in load_elf_binary() Get rid of indirect include of fs_struct.h New helper - current_umask() check_unsafe_exec() doesn't care about signal handlers sharing New locking/refcounting for fs_struct Take fs_struct handling to new file (fs/fs_struct.c) Get rid of bumping fs_struct refcount in pivot_root(2) Kill unsharing fs_struct in __set_personality()
| * New helper - current_umask()Al Viro2009-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | current->fs->umask is what most of fs_struct users are doing. Put that into a helper function. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* | NFS: Optimise NFS close()Trond Myklebust2009-03-19
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Close-to-open cache consistency rules really only require us to flush out writes on calls to close(), and require us to revalidate attributes on the very last close of the file. Currently we appear to be doing a lot of extra attribute revalidation and cache flushes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* nfs: authenticated deep mountingEG Keizer2008-10-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allow mount to do authenticated mounts below the root of the exported tree. The wording in RFC 2623, sec 2.3.2. allows fsinfo with UNIX authentication on the root of the export. Mounts are not always done on the root of the exported tree. Especially autoumounts often mount below the root of the exported tree. Some server implementations (justly) require full authentication for the so-called deep mounts. The old code used AUTH_SYS only. This caused deep mounts to fail on systems requiring stronger authentication.. The client should try both authentication types and use the first one that succeeds. This method was already partially implemented. This patch completes the implementation for NFS2 and NFS3. This patch was developed to allow Debian systems to automount home directories on Solaris servers with krb5 authentication. Tested on kernel 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1 Signed-off-by: E.G. Keizer <keie@few.vu.nl> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Remove the redundant file_open entry from struct nfs_rpc_opsTrond Myklebust2008-07-09
| | | | | | | All instances are set to nfs_open(), so we should just remove the redundant indirection. Ditto for the file_release op Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Fix the ftruncate() credential problemTrond Myklebust2008-07-09
| | | | | | | ftruncate() access checking is supposed to be performed at open() time, just like reads and writes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Reduce the stack usage in NFSv3 create operationsTrond Myklebust2008-07-09
| | | | Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* nfs: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrencesHarvey Harrison2008-05-16
| | | | | | | | | | __FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__ Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* Merge branch 'task_killable' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-01-31
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc * 'task_killable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/willy/misc: (22 commits) Remove commented-out code copied from NFS NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLE Add wait_for_completion_killable Add wait_event_killable Add schedule_timeout_killable Use mutex_lock_killable in vfs_readdir Add mutex_lock_killable Use lock_page_killable Add lock_page_killable Add fatal_signal_pending Add TASK_WAKEKILL exit: Use task_is_* signal: Use task_is_* sched: Use task_contributes_to_load, TASK_ALL and TASK_NORMAL ptrace: Use task_is_* power: Use task_is_* wait: Use TASK_NORMAL proc/base.c: Use task_is_* proc/array.c: Use TASK_REPORT perfmon: Use task_is_* ... Fixed up conflicts in NFS/sunrpc manually..
| * NFS: Switch from intr mount option to TASK_KILLABLEMatthew Wilcox2007-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | By using the TASK_KILLABLE infrastructure, we can get rid of the 'intr' mount option. We have to use _killable everywhere instead of _interruptible as we get rid of rpc_clnt_sigmask/sigunmask. Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett <howlett@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
* | NLM/NFS: Use cached nlm_host when calling nlmclnt_proc()Chuck Lever2008-01-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that each NFS mount point caches its own nlm_host structure, it can be passed to nlmclnt_proc() for each lock request. By pinning an nlm_host for each mount point, we trade the overhead of looking up or creating a fresh nlm_host struct during every NLM procedure call for a little extra memory. We also restrict the nlmclnt_proc symbol to limit the use of this call to in-tree modules. Note that nlm_lookup_host() (just removed from the client's per-request NLM processing) could also trigger an nlm_host garbage collection. Now client-side nlm_host garbage collection occurs only during NFS mount processing. Since the NFS client now holds a reference on these nlm_host structures, they wouldn't have been affected by garbage collection anyway. Given that nlm_lookup_host() reorders the global nlm_host chain after every successful lookup, and that a garbage collection could be triggered during the call, we've removed a significant amount of per-NLM-request CPU processing overhead. Sidebar: there are only a few remaining references to the internals of NFS inodes in the client-side NLM code. The only references I found are related to extracting or comparing the inode's file handle via NFS_FH(). One is in nlmclnt_grant(); the other is in nlmclnt_setlockargs(). Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* | NFS: Clean up the (commit|read|write)_setup() callback routinesTrond Myklebust2008-01-30
|/ | | | | | | Move the common code for setting up the nfs_write_data and nfs_read_data structures into fs/nfs/read.c, fs/nfs/write.c and fs/nfs/direct.c. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Use nfs_refresh_inode() in ops that aren't expected to change the inodeTrond Myklebust2007-10-09
| | | | | | | nfs_post_op_update_inode() is really only meant to be used if we expect the inode and its attributes to have changed in some way. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFSv3: Always use directory post-op attributes in nfs3_proc_lookupTrond Myklebust2007-10-09
| | | | | | | LOOKUP returns the directory post-op attributes whether or not the operation was successful. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Fake up 'wcc' attributes to prevent cache invalidation after writeTrond Myklebust2007-10-09
| | | | | | | | | NFSv2 and v4 don't offer weak cache consistency attributes on WRITE calls. In NFSv3, returning wcc data is optional. In all cases, we want to prevent the client from invalidating our cached data whenever ->write_done() attempts to update the inode attributes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Fix atime revalidation in read()Trond Myklebust2007-10-09
| | | | | | | | NFSv3 will correctly update atime on a read() call, so there is no need to set the NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME flag unless the call to nfs_refresh_inode() fails. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Fix atime revalidation in readdir()Trond Myklebust2007-10-09
| | | | | | | | NFSv3 will correctly update atime on a readdir call, so there is no need to set the NFS_INO_INVALID_ATIME flag unless the call to nfs_refresh_inode() fails. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* SUNRPC: Clean up the sillyrename codeTrond Myklebust2007-07-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a couple of bugs: - Don't rely on the parent dentry still being valid when the call completes. Fixes a race with shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree() - Don't remove the file if the filehandle has been labelled as stale. Fix a couple of inefficiencies - Remove the global list of sillyrenamed files. Instead we can cache the sillyrename information in the dentry->d_fsdata - Move common code from unlink_setup/unlink_done into fs/nfs/unlink.c Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Introduce struct nfs_removeargs+nfs_removeresTrond Myklebust2007-07-19
| | | | | | | We need a common structure for setting up an unlink() rpc call in order to fix the asynchronous unlink code. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: nfs3_proc_create() should use nfs_post_op_update_inode()Trond Myklebust2007-07-10
| | | | | | | Also get rid of a redundant call to nfs_setattr_update_inode(). The call to nfs3_proc_setattr() already takes care of that. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not usedRandy Dunlap2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed. Suggested by Al Viro. Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc, sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs). Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* NFS: Remove nfs_readpage_sync()Trond Myklebust2007-02-03
| | | | | | It makes no sense to maintain 2 parallel systems for reading in pages. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* [PATCH] nfs: change uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to use f_pathJosef "Jeff" Sipek2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | | Change all the uses of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} to f_path.{dentry,mnt} in the nfs client code. Signed-off-by: Josef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* NFS: Remove nfs_writepage_sync()Trond Myklebust2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | Maintaining two parallel ways of doing synchronous writes is rather pointless. This patch gets rid of the legacy nfs_writepage_sync(), and replaces it with the faster asynchronous writes. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Remove use of the Big Kernel Lock around calls to rpc_call_syncFrank Filz2006-12-06
| | | | | | | Remove use of the Big Kernel Lock around calls to rpc_call_sync. Signed-off-by: Frank Filz <ffilz@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS Exclusive open not supported bugAndy Ryan2006-12-06
| | | | | | | | | | | When trying to open a file with the O_EXCL flag over NFS on a server that does not support exclusive mode, the file does not open. The reason, rpc_call_sync returns a errno number, and not the nfs error number. I fixed it by changing the status check in nfs3proc.c. Either this is how it should be fixed, or rpc_call_sync should be fixed to return the NFS error. Signed-off-by: Andy Ryan <genanr@allantgroup.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* [PATCH] nfs: verifier is network-endianAl Viro2006-10-20
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fs: Removing useless castsPanagiotis Issaris2006-09-27
| | | | | | | | | | | * Removing useless casts * Removing useless wrapper * Conversion from kmalloc+memset to kzalloc Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris <takis@issaris.org> Acked-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* NFS: Use cached page as buffer for NFS symlink requestsChuck Lever2006-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | Now that we have a copy of the symlink path in the page cache, we can pass a struct page down to the XDR routines instead of a string buffer. Test plan: Connectathon, all NFS versions. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
* NFS: Fix double d_drop in nfs_instantiate() error pathChuck Lever2006-09-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the LOOKUP or GETATTR in nfs_instantiate fail, nfs_instantiate will do a d_drop before returning. But some callers already do a d_drop in the case of an error return. Make certain we do only one d_drop in all error paths. This issue was introduced because over time, the symlink proc API diverged slightly from the create/mkdir/mknod proc API. To prevent other coding mistakes of this type, change the symlink proc API to be more like create/mkdir/mknod and move the nfs_instantiate call into the symlink proc routines so it is used in exactly the same way for create, mkdir, mknod, and symlink. Test plan: Connectathon, all versions of NFS. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>