RE: [NFS] kernel nfsd crash

[Stephen Walton <swalton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Christian, Chip wrote:

>     --- nfsfh.c 2001/05/09 00:54:56 1.1
>     +++ nfsfh.c 2001/05/09 00:56:01
>     @@ -244,6 +244,10 @@
>               */
>              pdentry = child->d_inode->i_op->lookup(child->d_inode, tdentry);
>              d_drop(tdentry); /* we never want ".." hashed */
>     + if (!pdentry && tdentry->d_inode == NULL) {
>     + dput(tdentry);
>     + pdentry = ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> ==> + return()
>     + }

Wouldn't this be simpler:

        if (!pdentry && tdentry->d_inode == NULL) {
                dput(tdentry);
                return ERRPTR(-EINVAL);
        }

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Stephen Walton, Professor of Physics and Astronomy,
California State University, Northridge
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