From: Erez Zadok <ezk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This fixes a harmless but annoying message that unionfs prints if a dropped dentry is being revalidated, which could happen if you unlink open files. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/unionfs/commonfops.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/commonfops.c b/fs/unionfs/commonfops.c index 1045e51..89a236b 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/commonfops.c +++ b/fs/unionfs/commonfops.c @@ -305,9 +305,12 @@ int unionfs_file_revalidate(struct file *file, int willwrite) unionfs_lock_dentry(dentry); sb = dentry->d_sb; - /* first revalidate the dentry inside struct file */ - if (!__unionfs_d_revalidate_chain(dentry, NULL) && - !d_deleted(dentry)) { + /* + * First revalidate the dentry inside struct file, + * but not unhashed dentries. + */ + if (!d_deleted(dentry) && + !__unionfs_d_revalidate_chain(dentry, NULL)) { err = -ESTALE; goto out_nofree; } -- 1.5.2.rc1.165.gaf9b - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html