Re: [PATCH] vfs: initialize d_iname to null for long file names

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 09:41:05PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> dentry->d_iname is currently uninitialized for long file names.  Init
> it to null string to avoid bad behaviors on careless references to it.

I don't really see the point.  If your code references it's already
buggy.  The only proper way to acces it is through dentry->d_name.

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