negative dentry objects

[Onkar <onkar.n.m@xxxxxxxxx>]

negative dentry is not associated with any inode (d_inode=0) because either the inode was deleted (how ??)  OR path name was never correct to begin with ( ???? foxed ) 
Please try to give some clues as to how inode gets deleted when it is associated with  a dentry d (d->d_inode) ??? and why the the dentry was created in the firt place when the path name isn't correct ??



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Thanks & regards,
Onkar Mahajan