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To: John Martin <suntzu@stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] symlink.c
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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Quoting John Martin <suntzu@stanford.edu>:
> this patch adds a check to make sure memory was allocated, returns an
> error code otherwise.

autofs4_dentry_ino doesn't allocate memory; it just extracts the fsdata pointer
from the dentry structure.  If it's returning NULL, then there's something else
wrong and you're papering over the symptoms.  Are you seeing this happen?

Linus, please don't apply this.

     J