linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] EXPORTFS: Don't return NULL from fh_to_dentry()/fh_to

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Date:	Tue, 9 Dec 2008 04:52:10 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, hugh@...itas.com,
	hch@...radead.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EXPORTFS: Don't return NULL from
	fh_to_dentry()/fh_to_parent() [ver #4]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:42:28PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> Not of fh_to_dentry(), but it looks like fh_to_parent() is the same.  So
> you'd want the below.
> 
> This is partially reverting 440037287c5, which appears to have also do
> some changing of NULLs to ESTALEs which we might also want to reconsider
> at some point.  Maybe Christoph could explain what the rationale was.

Miklos suggested always returning ERR_PTR values instead of a a min
or NULLs and ERR_PTR values to make the interface cleaner.  I tend
to agree, but botched up the conversion.

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