linux-kernel - Re: VFS deadlock ?

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFyKCswjX2Spg3UY8t9Uj2KwD-3Aga9epBUPR0cWnHfNqA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:47:06 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VFS deadlock ?

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> How do I go from the dentry in p1 to the path d_absolute_path expects ?

You don't. Use dentry_path() instead. It will also end up giving you
the information about whether the dentry is unlinked or not.

         Linus
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