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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] dget_parent() misuse in xfs_filestream_get_parent()
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:00:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190628060026.GR17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)

	dget_parent() never returns NULL.  So this

        parent = dget_parent(dentry);
        if (!parent)
                goto out_dput;

        dir = igrab(d_inode(parent));
        dput(parent);

out_dput:

is obviously fishy.  What is that code trying to do?  Is that
"dentry might be a root of disconnected tree, in which case
we want xfs_filestream_get_parent() to return NULL"?  If so,
that should be

        parent = dget_parent(dentry);
        if (parent != dentry)
		dir = igrab(d_inode(parent));
        dput(parent);

If we want dentry itself, that dir = igrab(...) should be
unconditional.  I'm not familiar enough with that code,
and I'd rather not go into YAMassiveSideRTFS, so...

             reply	other threads:[~2019-06-28  6:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-28  6:00 Al Viro [this message]
2019-07-07 23:22 ` [RFC] dget_parent() misuse in xfs_filestream_get_parent() Dave Chinner

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