Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) Then the inode is passed down all the way,
and you don't have people try to get it from the (not yet initialized)
dentry.
dentry.
But there might be other parts missing too, and I didn't look at how easy/painful that backport would be.
easy/painful that backport would be.
Al - comments? Which used to not get the inode at all, so those older kernels use d_inode(dentry), which doesn't work in this path since dentry->d_inode hasn't been instantiated yet..
dentry->d_inode hasn't been instantiated yet..
Linus
Linus
Linus
dentry.
But there might be other parts missing too, and I didn't look at how easy/painful that backport would be.
easy/painful that backport would be.
Al - comments? Which used to not get the inode at all, so those older kernels use d_inode(dentry), which doesn't work in this path since dentry->d_inode hasn't been instantiated yet..
dentry->d_inode hasn't been instantiated yet..
Linus
Linus
Linus