nfsd: don't fail unchecked creates of non-special files
Allow a v3 unchecked open of a non-regular file succeed as if it were a
lookup; typically a client in such a case will want to fall back on a
local open, so succeeding and giving it the filehandle is more useful
than failing with nfserr_exist, which makes it appear that nothing at
all exists by that name.
Similarly for v4, on an open-create, return the same errors we would on
an attempt to open a non-regular file, instead of returning
nfserr_exist.
This fixes a problem found doing a v4 open of a symlink with
O_RDONLY|O_CREAT, which resulted in the current client returning EEXIST.
Thanks also to Trond for analysis.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com>
Tested-by: Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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