linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] debugfs: fix automount inode i

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Date:	Sun, 7 Feb 2016 22:38:51 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Roman Pen <r.peniaev@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] debugfs: fix automount inode i_nlink references

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