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Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:51:41 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] dcache: error out if the name buffer is too short
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On 01/26, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Heh. Not sure what I was thinking about, but this looks obviously wrong
> when I re-read my email. This will add the extra "/" at the end, unless
> IS_ROOT().

And this motivated me to try to actually read __dentry_path().

Al, Denys, unless I am totally confused the "restart" logic is very broken.
We can't simply restart because the main loop changes dentry?

Oleg.