Re: [WTF] ... is going on with current->fs->{root,mnt} accesses inpohmelfs

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 01:45:15PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:

> > To mountpoint or to fs root?  And what's going on with d_find_alias()?
> 
> To root if it happend to be under mountpoint.

HUH?  How the hell can root of filesystem be under the mountpoint of
that filesystem?  What are you talking about?

> > AFAICS, you are doing that for regular files as well as directories,
> > and you do support link(2) in there, so dentry (and path) obtained from
> > that will be random.
> 
> Not exactly random, but can change.
> Links support is rather subtle because of that, yes.
> 
> Plan was to add external attribute or increase inode size to include
> parent name, but when I coded that it was so messy in respect of
> renames, that was dropped.

Why not use the dentries you've been given by VFS?
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