In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Trond Myklebust writes:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 19:00 -0500, Chaitanya Patti wrote:
> > 
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > In the function nfs_lookup in nfs/dir.c , the following line (line # 926):
> > 
> > error = nfs_reval_fsid(nd->mnt, dir, &fhandle, &fattr);
> > 
> > uses `nd' without having checked if it is NULL.
> > 
> > Is this correct?
> 
> It is quite intentional and correct. Calling ->lookup() without correct
> intent information is a bug.

Ah, ok.  So why not put an ASSERT in there, or at least a comment, to make
the code clearer.  As it stands, anyone looking at the code in the future
can easily rediscover this "bug" that dereferences a null ptr.

Thanks,
Erez.
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