On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 05:41:34PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 10/6/2016 5:37 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 05:30:29PM -0400, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> >> This reverts commit acc29fb8f792 ("debugfs: ->d_parent is never NULL or
> >> negative") as it breaks the debugfs_remove_recursive API as show in the
> >> callstack below.
> >
> > NAK. Fix your code, don't break global asserts.
> >
>
> I can fix the code if you tell me what the problem is:
Getting dentries with NULL ->d_parent should never, ever happen. Find the
place where such a beast appears and you've got your problem.
The same goes for negative dentries with children. Again, if your code
triggers such a situation, find where it does so and you've found a bug.
More than one, at that.
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