On 27/07/16 03:35, Salah Triki wrote:
> As VFS expects, lookup inserts NULL inode to dentry when the named inode
> does not exist.
>
> Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/befs/linuxvfs.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c b/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
> index c734f21..2fea87b 100644
> --- a/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
> +++ b/fs/befs/linuxvfs.c
> @@ -184,6 +184,7 @@ befs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
>
> if (ret == BEFS_BT_NOT_FOUND) {
> befs_debug(sb, "<--- %s %pd not found", __func__, dentry);
> + d_add(dentry, NULL);
> return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
>
> } else if (ret != BEFS_OK || offset == 0) {
>
Hi,
The expectation Salah is mentioning can be seen in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt:383
"If the named inode does not exist a NULL inode should be inserted
into the dentry (this is called a negative dentry)."
Acked-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
I have applied this patch into [0]:
https://github.com/luisbg/linux-befs/tree/befs-next
Thanks,
Luis
[0] reason for the git branch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/26/533
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