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    [PATCH] knfsd: Fix type mismatch with filldir_t used by nfsd · a0ad13ef
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    nfsd defines a type 'encode_dent_fn' which is much like 'filldir_t' except
    that the first pointer is 'struct readdir_cd *' rather than 'void *'.  It
    then casts encode_dent_fn points to 'filldir_t' as needed.  This hides any
    other type mismatches between the two such as the fact that the 'ino' arg
    recently changed from ino_t to u64.
    
    So: get rid of 'encode_dent_fn', get rid of the cast of the function type,
    change the first arg of various functions from 'struct readdir_cd *' to
    'void *', and live with the fact that we have a little less type checking
    on the calling of these functions now.  Less internal (to nfsd) checking
    offset by more external checking, which is more important.
    
    Thanks to Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es> for discovering this and
    providing an initial patch.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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