[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: fix the wrong directory passed to ocfs2_lookup_ino_from_name() when link file

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 18:07:45 +0800 Xue jiufei <xuejiufei at huawei.com> wrote:

> In function ocfs2_link(), parent directory inode passed to function
> ocfs2_lookup_ino_from_name() is wrong. Parameter dir is the parent
> of new_dentry not old_dentry. We should get old_dir from old_dentry
> and lookup old_dentry in old_dir in case another node remove the old dentry.

What are the user-visible effects of this change?