12 Jul
2019
12 Jul
'19
3 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 02:25:53PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
if (flags & LOOKUP_BENEATH) { nd->root = nd->path; if (!(flags & LOOKUP_RCU)) path_get(&nd->root); else nd->root_seq = nd->seq;
BTW, this assignment is needed for LOOKUP_RCU case. Without it you are pretty much guaranteed that lazy pathwalk will fail, when it comes to complete_walk().
Speaking of which, what would happen if LOOKUP_ROOT/LOOKUP_BENEATH combination would someday get passed?