[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: fix the wrong directory passed to ocfs2_lookup_ino_from_name() when link file

[Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@huawei.com>]

On 2015/1/6 6:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2014 09:52:14 +0100 Aron Szabo <aron@ubit.hu> wrote:
> 
>> 12/19/2014 11:15 PM keltez__ssel, Andrew Morton __rta:
>>> On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:07:45 +0800 Xue jiufei <xuejiufei@huawei.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In function ocfs2_link(), parent directory inode passed to function
>>>> ocfs2_lookup_ino_from_name() is wrong. Parameter dir is the parent
>>>> of new_dentry not old_dentry. We should get old_dir from old_dentry
>>>> and lookup old_dentry in old_dir in case another node remove the old dentry.
>>> What are the user-visible effects of this change?
>>
>> Hi Andew!
>>
>> Hard linking works again, when paths are relative with at least one 
>> subdirectory. This is how the problem was reproducable:
>>
>> # mkdir a
>> # mkdir b
>> # touch a/test
>> # ln a/test b/test
>> ln: failed to create hard link `b/test' => `a/test': No such file or 
>> directory
>>
>> However when creating links in the same dir, it worked well.
>>
>> Now the link gets created.
>>
>> Thanks for the quick fix Xue!
> 
> (top-posting untangled)
> 
> When you say "works again", you mean that we broke it?  This patch
> fixes a regression?  If so, do we know what caused that regression?  Or
> at least when it occurred?

Yes? it fixes commit 0e048316ff57 (ocfs2: check existence of old dentry
in ocfs2_link()).
> 
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