On Thu, 30 Oct 2025, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 10:31:12AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
>
> > +static struct dentry *ecryptfs_start_creating_dentry(struct dentry *dentry)
> > {
> > - struct dentry *lower_dir_dentry;
> > + struct dentry *parent = dget_parent(dentry->d_parent);
>
> "Grab the reference to grandparent"?
>
That's somewhat embarrassing :-(
Fixed as below.
Thanks a lot!
NeilBrown
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
index b3702105d236..6a5bca89e752 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
static struct dentry *ecryptfs_start_creating_dentry(struct dentry *dentry)
{
- struct dentry *parent = dget_parent(dentry->d_parent);
+ struct dentry *parent = dget_parent(dentry);
struct dentry *ret;
ret = start_creating_dentry(ecryptfs_dentry_to_lower(parent),
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ static struct dentry *ecryptfs_start_creating_dentry(struct
dentry *dentry)
static struct dentry *ecryptfs_start_removing_dentry(struct dentry *dentry)
{
- struct dentry *parent = dget_parent(dentry->d_parent);
+ struct dentry *parent = dget_parent(dentry);
struct dentry *ret;
ret = start_removing_dentry(ecryptfs_dentry_to_lower(parent),
