From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [pnfs] [GIT BISECT] first bad commit: 1f36f774 Switch !O_CREAT case to use of do_last() Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 11:00:31 +0000 Message-ID: <20100325110031.GX30031@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <4BAA5035.1060906@panasas.com> <4BAA52A8.2080304@panasas.com> <20100324180622.GS30031@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <4BAA5955.4000001@gmail.com> <20100324185604.GT30031@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <4BAB2F5A.30409@panasas.com> <20100325101231.GU30031@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <4BAB3967.6000702@panasas.com> <20100325104924.GV30031@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <4BAB4168.2090404@panasas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Boaz Harrosh , linux-fsdevel , "J. Bruce Fields" , pNFS Mailing List , linux-kernel , Doug Nazar , Trond Myklebust To: Benny Halevy Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BAB4168.2090404@panasas.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:56:40PM +0200, Benny Halevy wrote: > - if (*want_dir && !path->dentry->d_inode->i_op->lookup) > + if (*want_dir && !path->dentry->d_inode->i_op->lookup) { > + WARN_ON(1); > goto exit_dput; > + } > path_to_nameidata(path, nd); > audit_inode(pathname, nd->path.dentry); > goto ok; > > but it is NOT tripping for this scenario. > > (for some reason I saw it tripping when building the kernel over nfs > but it's benign) It's ENOTDIR, not EISDIR, anyway. Happens if you ask to open foo/ or foo with O_DIRECTORY when foo is not a directory.