Re: bug tracking question (VFS crash)

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 21:05:11 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> i'm currently tracking a bug in VFS.
> (Please HELP-thread).
>
> My first impression is that:
> 1) sys_lseek() is called
> 2) file->f_dentry == NULL, i.e. goto out_putf
Stop here.

> My question(s):
> a) when is file->f_dentry==NULL?

When we got a bug. It should never happen. Can you reproduce the
situation?

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