nfsd4: better VERIFY comment
authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:32:50 +0000 (15:32 -0400)
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Tue, 7 Jan 2014 21:01:15 +0000 (16:01 -0500)
This confuses me every time.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
fs/nfsd/nfs4proc.c

index 41e34df..dadff09 100644 (file)
@@ -1069,8 +1069,10 @@ _nfsd4_verify(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct nfsd4_compound_state *cstate,
                                    cstate->current_fh.fh_dentry, &p,
                                    count, verify->ve_bmval,
                                    rqstp, 0);
-
-       /* this means that nfsd4_encode_fattr() ran out of space */
+       /*
+        * If nfsd4_encode_fattr() ran out of space, assume that's because
+        * the attributes are longer (hence different) than those given:
+        */
        if (status == nfserr_resource)
                status = nfserr_not_same;
        if (status)