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dcache: d_splice_alias should detect loops 

I believe this can only happen in the case of a corrupted filesystem.
So -EIO looks like the appropriate error.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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J. Bruce Fields 2014-03-12 12:19:23 -04:00 committed by Al Viro
parent 9635389534
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@ -2706,6 +2706,11 @@ struct dentry *d_splice_alias(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry)
dput(new);
return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
}
if (d_ancestor(new, dentry)) {
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
dput(new);
return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
}
write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
__d_materialise_dentry(dentry, new);
write_sequnlock(&rename_lock);