On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 10:26 AM Monthero rhmcruiser@gmail.com wrote:

Hi Amir thanks for the pointer. I will get in touch with maintainer of 3.16 Yes it covers Neil's commit and apart from that it would need this replacement for dentry check in 3.16

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•   if (S_ISDIR(result->d_inode->i_mode)) {
  

•   if (d_is_dir(result)) {
  

Fine, but Why? How is dereferencing dentry->d_flags any better than dereferencing->d_inode when dentry has an invalid value?

Thanks, Amir.