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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
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To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
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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
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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