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From: "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Subject: Re: vfs-scale, nd->inode after __do_follow_link()
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
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Nick Piggin:
> > Isn't it path.dentry->d_inode instead of nd.inode?
	:::
> It should be the inode we followed, rather than the inode of the
> new path, I think.

In __do_follow_link(), path.dentry is what we followed, isn't it?

__do_follow_link()
{
	struct dentry *dentry = path->dentry;
	;;;
	*p = dentry->d_inode->i_op->follow_link(dentry, nd);
	;;;


J. R. Okajima