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vfs: d_obtain_alias() needs to use "/" as default name.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 01:32:56 +0000 (11:32 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:41:23 +0000 (15:41 +1000)
commit12a1f51d7fdd337af676833aeb73c2f3f027aed9
treede810b2ca1ea89d78d9c253d52ecf174e1f4f4ff
parent157ab1879f6f5b13e8dc5fb668959d2d0a0f8b28
vfs: d_obtain_alias() needs to use "/" as default name.

NFS appears to use d_obtain_alias() to create the root dentry rather than
d_make_root.  This can cause 'prepend_path()' to complain that the root
has a weird name if an NFS filesystem is lazily unmounted.  e.g.  if
"/mnt" is an NFS mount then

 { cd /mnt; umount -l /mnt ; ls -l /proc/self/cwd; }

will cause a WARN message like
   WARNING: at /home/git/linux/fs/dcache.c:2624 prepend_path+0x1d7/0x1e0()
   ...
   Root dentry has weird name <>

to appear in kernel logs.

So change d_obtain_alias() to use "/" rather than "" as the anonymous
name.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
fs/dcache.c