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From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Subject: vfs-scale, nd->inode after __do_follow_link()
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 11:10:49 +0900
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Isn't it path.dentry->d_inode instead of nd.inode?

J. R. Okajima

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 5bb7588..1df3bee 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2356,8 +2374,9 @@ reval:
 			goto exit_dput;
 		error = __do_follow_link(&path, &nd, &cookie);
 		if (unlikely(error)) {
-			if (!IS_ERR(cookie) && nd.inode->i_op->put_link)
-				nd.inode->i_op->put_link(path.dentry, &nd, cookie);
+			struct dentry *i = path.dentry->d_inode;
+			if (!IS_ERR(cookie) && i->i_op->put_link)
+				i->i_op->put_link(path.dentry, &nd, cookie);
 			/* nd.path had been dropped */
 			nd.path = path;
 			goto out_path;