On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 12:27:44PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > Hi Sage, > > > > Today's linux-next merge of the ceph tree got a conflict in > > fs/ceph/super.c between commit 3c5184ef1216 ("ceph: d_alloc_root() may > > fail") from Linus' tree and commit 26d913cdd955 ("ceph: always initialize > > the dentry in open_root_dentry()") from the ceph tree. > > > > I fixed it up (see below) and can carry the fix as necessary. > > Ahem... > > > + root = d_obtain_alias(inode); > > + } > > + ceph_init_dentry(root); > > What will happen if dentry returned by d_obtain_alias() had already existed? ceph_init_dentry() bails out immediately if d_fsdata is non-NULL. BTW, should I let Linus resolve this, or merge his master back into my tree, or rebase onto his master? sage -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html