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From: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp
Cc: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Q. d_alloc() in pipe(2)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:02:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091229150235.GA2927@hack> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021.1262066120@jrobl>

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:55:20PM +0900, hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp wrote:
>
>In pipe(2), create_write_pipe() creates a dentry by
>	struct qstr name = { .name = "" };
>	d_alloc(root, &name);
>
>But d_alloc() refers name->len which is uninitialized.

Well, it is initialized to 0. :)

>Isn't it better to replace d_alloc() by d_alloc_name(root, "")?
>

Maybe not, they totally equal in this case, IMO.

-- 
Live like a child, think like the god.
 

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-29 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-29  5:55 Q. d_alloc() in pipe(2) hooanon05
2009-12-29 15:02 ` Américo Wang [this message]
2009-12-30  3:41   ` hooanon05
2009-12-31  3:04 ` Bill Davidsen

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