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From: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.13-rc4 use after free in class_device_attr_show 
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On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 13:05:50 +1000, 
Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> wrote:
>The vcsnn value varies.  I traced the dentry parent chain for the
>latest event.  From bottom to top the d_name entries are
>
>  dev, vcs16, vc, class, /.
>
>That makes no sense, why is dev a child of vcs16?  Raw data at the end.

Ignore that bit, I was confusing /dev and dev as a subdir of a sysfs
entry.  The parent chain is right.