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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [fs/9p] Fix NULL point deref in v9fs_dir_release
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:13:31 -0400
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On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:19:01AM -0700, Venkateswararao Jujjuri (JV) wrote:
> There are situations in VFS where we endup calling v9fs_dir_release() before
> even we instantiate the filp. Hence the check.

Err, what callchain would that be?  This really should not happen.