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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: maneesh@in.ibm.com
Cc: Janet Morgan <janetmor@us.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.62 Oops during nfs mount
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 18:09:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15962.20933.457919.169668@charged.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030224123622.GB1103@in.ibm.com>

>>>>> " " == Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com> writes:

     > Hi Janet,

     > Following patch should fix this problem. I think Trond can say
     > whether it is correct or not. In my opinion rpc_rmdir should
     > test for negative dentry after lookup_hash() returns, like
     > rpc_unlink() does.

No. You are 'fixing' a symptom of a more fundamental
bug/misunderstanding: lookup_path("") returns no error, and is
sometimes causing us to remove the top level directory.
See the 2-line patch I posted yesterday. It should fix the Oops you
are reporting.

Cheers,
  Trond

  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-24 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-22  2:50 Janet Morgan
2003-02-24 12:36 ` Maneesh Soni
2003-02-24 17:09   ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
2003-02-26 20:09     ` Janet Morgan

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