On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 10:30 +0100, Luis Henriques wrote: > Dave Chiluk <[email protected]> writes: > > > 1d2ef5901483004d74947bbf78d5146c24038fe7 caused a regression in ncpfs such > > that > > directories could no longer be removed. This was because ncp_rmdir checked > > to see if a dentry could be unhashed before allowing it to be removed. Since > > 1d2ef5901483004d74947bbf78d5146c24038fe7 introduced a change that > > incremented > > dentry->d_count causing it to always be greater than 1 unhash would always > > fail. Thus causing the error path in ncp_rmdir to always be taken. > > Removing > > this error path is safe as unhashing is still accomplished by calls to dput > > from vfs_rmdir. > > Stable kernels starting with 3.0 also contain the offending commit, so > I believe this patch should be applied to stable kernels as well. > > Upstream commit is 698b8223631472bf982ed570b0812faa61955683.
Queued up for 3.2, thanks. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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