From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, NeilBrown , Trond Myklebust , Al Viro , Andrew Morton Subject: [ 055/123] vfs: d_obtain_alias() needs to use "/" as default name. Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 12:34:54 -0800 Message-Id: <20130109201505.612963793@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20130109201458.392601412@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130109201458.392601412@linuxfoundation.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.7-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: NeilBrown commit b911a6bdeef5848c468597d040e3407e0aee04ce upstream. NFS appears to use d_obtain_alias() to create the root dentry rather than d_make_root. This can cause 'prepend_path()' to complain that the root has a weird name if an NFS filesystem is lazily unmounted. e.g. if "/mnt" is an NFS mount then { cd /mnt; umount -l /mnt ; ls -l /proc/self/cwd; } will cause a WARN message like WARNING: at /home/git/linux/fs/dcache.c:2624 prepend_path+0x1d7/0x1e0() ... Root dentry has weird name <> to appear in kernel logs. So change d_obtain_alias() to use "/" rather than "" as the anonymous name. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: Trond Myklebust Cc: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/dcache.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1583,7 +1583,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_find_any_alias); */ struct dentry *d_obtain_alias(struct inode *inode) { - static const struct qstr anonstring = { .name = "" }; + static const struct qstr anonstring = QSTR_INIT("/", 1); struct dentry *tmp; struct dentry *res;