J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It looks like d_obtain_alias already returns -ESTALE in this case, not a > negative dentry. Sorry, you're right. I should know that. This patch is superfluous, though it may give better performance in the duff-handle case. David -- 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