Re: [PATCH] walk_component(): get inode in lookup_slow branch statement block

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 04:51:46PM +0800, sunliming wrote:
> The inode variable is used as a parameter by the step_into function,
> but is not assigned a value in the sub-lookup_slow branch path. So
> get the inode in the sub-lookup_slow branch path.

Take a good look at handle_mounts() and the things it does when
*not* in RCU mode (i.e. LOOKUP_RCU is not set).  Specifically,
                *inode = d_backing_inode(path->dentry);
		*seqp = 0; /* out of RCU mode, so the value doesn't matter */
this part.

IOW, the values passed to step_into() in inode/seq are overridden unless
we stay in RCU mode.  And if we'd been through lookup_slow(), we'd been
out of RCU mode since before we called step_into().