Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] debugfs: fix automount inode i_nlink references

From	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] debugfs: fix automount inode i_nlink references
Date	2016-02-08 07:40 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 01:47:12PM +0100, Roman Pen wrote:
> Directory inodes should start off with i_nlink == 2 (for "." entry).
> Of course the same rule should be applied to automount dentries for
> child and parent inodes as well.
> 
> Also now automount dentry does fsnotify_mkdir.
> 
> Without this patch kernel complains when sees i_nlink == 0:

How can the kernel see this?  What did you do to trigger this?

thanks,

greg k-h

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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] debugfs: fix automount inode i_nlink references Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-08 07:40 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] debugfs: fix automount inode i_nlink references Roman Peniaev <r.peniaev@gmail.com> - 2016-02-08 11:30 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] debugfs: fix automount inode i_nlink references Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-02-08 17:40 +0100

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