Hi, On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 14:52 +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> > > AFAICS if d_splice_alias() returned non-NULL, this code would Oops > (finish_open expects an instantiated dentry). > > Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --- > fs/gfs2/inode.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c > index 6d7f976..abe7dae 100644 > --- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c > +++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c > @@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ static struct dentry *__gfs2_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, > > d = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); > if (file && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) > - error = finish_open(file, dentry, gfs2_open_common, opened); > + error = finish_open(file, d ? d : dentry, gfs2_open_common, opened); > > gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&gh); > if (error) Not sure I understand why this is required... when the inode is a regular file, d can only be an error (if the inode is an error) or it will be NULL. Since the __gfs2_lookup would terminate further up if the inode were an error, then d must always be NULL in the regular file case, so I'm not sure that this is a bug, Steve. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html