Re: [PATCH] cifs: cope with negative dentries in cifs_get_root

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On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:02:40AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
>> The loop around lookup_one_len doesn't handle the case where it might
>> return a negative dentry, which can cause an oops on the next pass
>> through the loop. Check for that and break out of the loop with an
>> error of -ENOENT if there is one.
>
> Ouch.  Nice catch and that one is my damn fault.  Do you want that one
> to go through cifs or vfs tree?  ACK, in any case...

Probably safer to go through my tree, reduce chance of merge conflict
Was planning on sending a merge request up soon in any case.



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Thanks,

Steve
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