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authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>2011-08-08 11:50:24 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-08-29 13:29:06 -0700
commitb732c7ad1f6e6056dd898de7987665d4c490c78d (patch)
tree063b60aebb505805e1383c3bbf4506ffd233f13d
parent9a420aaeab0231727fc620fca9cd0e46e6438e93 (diff)
cifs: demote cERROR in build_path_from_dentry to cFYI
commit fa71f447065f676157ba6a2c121ba419818fc559 upstream. Running the cthon tests on a recent kernel caused this message to pop occasionally: CIFS VFS: did not end path lookup where expected namelen is 0 Some added debugging showed that namelen and dfsplen were both 0 when this occurred. That means that the read_seqretry returned true. Assuming that the comment inside the if statement is true, this should be harmless and just means that we raced with a rename. If that is the case, then there's no need for alarm and we can demote this to cFYI. While we're at it, print the dfsplen too so that we can see what happened here if the message pops during debugging. Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/dir.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
index d8d26f334ca0..16cdd6da227a 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
@@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ cifs_bp_rename_retry:
}
rcu_read_unlock();
if (namelen != dfsplen || read_seqretry(&rename_lock, seq)) {
- cERROR(1, "did not end path lookup where expected namelen is %d",
- namelen);
+ cFYI(1, "did not end path lookup where expected. namelen=%d "
+ "dfsplen=%d", namelen, dfsplen);
/* presumably this is only possible if racing with a rename
of one of the parent directories (we can not lock the dentries
above us to prevent this, but retrying should be harmless) */