Re: [PATCH] fs/ceph/mds_client: give up on paths longer than PATH_MAX

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 2:24 PM Alex Markuze amarkuze@redhat.com wrote:

Max, could you add a cap on the retry count to your original patch?

Before I wrote code that's not useful at all: I don't quite get why retry on buffer overflow is necessary at all. It looks like it once seemed to be a useful kludge, but then 1b71fe2efa31 ("ceph analog of cifs build_path_from_dentry() race fix") added the read_seqretry() check which, to my limited understanding, is a more robust implementation of rename detection.

Max