vfs: d_obtain_alias() needs to use "/" as default name.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Fri, 9 Nov 2012 00:09:37 +0000 (16:09 -0800)
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Thu, 20 Dec 2012 23:49:10 +0000 (18:49 -0500)
commitb911a6bdeef5848c468597d040e3407e0aee04ce
tree5c71c9c5078634a398d3f0e739e2d8dce732d194
parent471667391a92bf7bf2cd4ff31a3ad88e5dec934b
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>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs/dcache.c