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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [autofs] [RFC PATCH]autofs4: hang and proposed fix
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 12:57:40 +0000
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On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:56:12PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> They are still NULL in exactly one case: lookup_one_len.  Given the design
> of lookup_one_len we can't get at a nameidata there at all.

Oh, forgot the most important bit here :)  lookup_one_len is a library helper
never called by the VFS.  autofs (v4 at least) doesn't use it so now always
get a nameidata.  In fact if you look in -mm there's a patch from me that
makes use of that fact.