linux-kernel - Re: VFS deadlock ?

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Message-ID: <20130321215255.GB21522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:52:55 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VFS deadlock ?

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 05:41:18PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> fs/namei.c:2342:3: warning: passing argument 1 of ???d_absolute_path??? from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default]
>    d_absolute_path(p1, path, 4096);
>    ^
> In file included from include/linux/fs.h:8:0,
>                  from fs/namei.c:21:
> include/linux/dcache.h:337:14: note: expected ???const struct path *??? but argument is of type ???struct dentry *???
>  extern char *d_absolute_path(const struct path *, char *, int);
>               ^
> 
> 
> How do I go from the dentry in p1 to the path d_absolute_path expects ?

Ugh...  s/d_absolute_path/dentry_path/, of course.  Sorry about the braino...
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