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From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
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Subject: vfs-scale, d_revalidate from nfsd
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 23:03:56 +0900
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NFSD calls filesystem's ->d_revalidate() with the parameter nd == NULL.
So every
	if (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
		return -ECHILD;
code which was added to ->d_revalidate() of FS which supports NFS
exporting will crash.

If we rewrite it as
	if (nd && (nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU))
		return -ECHILD;
the problem may not occur.
But I am not sure whether lookup_one_len() call in NFSD support rcu-walk.


J. R. Okajima