On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 9:18 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > /* Called from selinux_complete_init, try to find a dentry. */ > dentry = d_find_alias(inode); > + if (!dentry) > + dentry = d_find_any_alias(inode); Can you please explain why this isn't just dentry = d_find_any_alias(inode); without the initial "try to find a hashed alias"? (Same question for the other case). Linus