From: Miklos Szeredi Currently getcwd(2) on a detached mount will give a garbled result: > mkdir /mnt/foo > mount --bind /etc /mnt/foo > cd /mnt/foo/skel > /bin/pwd /mnt/foo/skel > umount -l /mnt/foo > /bin/pwd etcskel After the patch it will give "detached:skel" as result. Thanks to John Johansen for pointing out this bug. Comment from Al Viro: use "detached:" prefix to differentiate it from attached paths. Reported-by: John Johansen Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- fs/dcache.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/dcache.c 2008-06-23 17:35:39.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/fs/dcache.c 2008-06-23 17:46:05.000000000 +0200 @@ -1828,8 +1828,16 @@ char *__d_path(const struct path *path, global_root: retval += 1; /* hit the slash */ - if (prepend_name(&retval, &buflen, &dentry->d_name) != 0) - goto Elong; + + if (IS_ROOT(dentry)) { + /* Attached, or pseudo filesystem with "foo:" prefix */ + if (prepend_name(&retval, &buflen, &dentry->d_name) != 0) + goto Elong; + } else { + /* Detached */ + if (prepend(&retval, &buflen, "detached:", 9) != 0) + goto Elong; + } root->mnt = vfsmnt; root->dentry = dentry; return retval; -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/