The attached patch checks the memory allocation in d_alloc_root, and
fills in the correct hash for a root qstr.
Regards,
Bill
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--- fs/dcache.c.old Sat Sep 6 16:03:33 1997
+++ fs/dcache.c Fri Sep 12 09:39:08 1997
@@ -211,7 +232,9 @@
if (root_inode) {
- res = d_alloc(NULL, &(const struct qstr) { "/", 1, 0 });
- res->d_parent = res;
- d_instantiate(res, root_inode);
+ res = d_alloc(NULL, &(const struct qstr) { "/", 1, 47 });
+ if (res) {
+ res->d_parent = res;
+ d_instantiate(res, root_inode);
+ }
}
return res;
@@ -345,5 +368,5 @@
/*
- * We cannibalize "newdentry" when moving dentry on top of it,
+ * We cannibalize "target" when moving dentry on top of it,
* because it's going to be thrown away anyway. We could be more
* polite about it, though.
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