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Subject[ 055/123] vfs: d_obtain_alias() needs to use "/" as default name.
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3.7-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

commit b911a6bdeef5848c468597d040e3407e0aee04ce upstream.

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>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
fs/dcache.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1583,7 +1583,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_find_any_alias);
*/
struct dentry *d_obtain_alias(struct inode *inode)
{
- static const struct qstr anonstring = { .name = "" };
+ static const struct qstr anonstring = QSTR_INIT("/", 1);
struct dentry *tmp;
struct dentry *res;




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