On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 01:31 +0000, 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? I had *exactly* the same reaction, and maybe the code would have been a little less surprising if the null check were in the caller (here) rather than in ceph_init_dentry(). -Alex -- 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