On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 01:12:27PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 01:29 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > 
> > > It's sufficient to recognize the nameidata struct is NULL on a call 
> > > from lookup_hash nothing more that I'm aware of is needed. If that 
> > > changes 
> > > then of course autofs will need to be changed. autofs also makes 
> > > assumptions about what flags are set for different reasons.
> > 
> > Consider those cases where the VFS calls ->lookup()/->d_revalidate()
> > with the nameidata argument set to NULL to be bugs. They are pretty much
> > all slated to be fixed soon in order to enable features like read-only
> > bind mounts etc.
> 
> They are still NULL in exactly one case: lookup_one_len.  Given the design
> of lookup_one_len we can't get at a nameidata there at all.
> 

and I'll use that to detect the lookup_one_len call.

Ian

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