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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, bfields@fieldses.org,
	hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EXPORTFS: Don't return NULL from fh_to_dentry()/fh_to_parent() [ver #2]
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:12:15 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17271.1228489935@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0812051407130.25248@blonde.anvils>

Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote:

> I think it's still wrong in shmem_fh_to_dentry(): you've fixed
> the early return, but there'd be another return NULL if !inode?

Now that I've fixed that as well, what are the chances of d_find_alias()
returning NULL, do you think?  I suppose all that's required is for a file to
be deleted locally while a remote client has a filehandle to it.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-05 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-05 13:30 [PATCH] EXPORTFS: Don't return NULL from fh_to_dentry()/fh_to_parent() [ver #2] David Howells
2008-12-05 14:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2008-12-05 15:03   ` David Howells
2008-12-05 15:12   ` David Howells [this message]
2008-12-05 16:15     ` Hugh Dickins

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