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    dcache: Handle escaped paths in prepend_path · 91397d56
    Eric W. Biederman authored
    
    
    commit cde93be45a8a90d8c264c776fab63487b5038a65 upstream.
    
    A rename can result in a dentry that by walking up d_parent
    will never reach it's mnt_root.  For lack of a better term
    I call this an escaped path.
    
    prepend_path is called by four different functions __d_path,
    d_absolute_path, d_path, and getcwd.
    
    __d_path only wants to see paths are connected to the root it passes
    in.  So __d_path needs prepend_path to return an error.
    
    d_absolute_path similarly wants to see paths that are connected to
    some root.  Escaped paths are not connected to any mnt_root so
    d_absolute_path needs prepend_path to return an error greater
    than 1.  So escaped paths will be treated like paths on lazily
    unmounted mounts.
    
    getcwd needs to prepend "(unreachable)" so getcwd also needs
    prepend_path to return an error.
    
    d_path is the interesting hold out.  d_path just wants to print
    something, and does not care about the weird cases.  Which raises
    the question what should be printed?
    
    Given that <escaped_path>/<anything> should result in -ENOENT I
    believe it is desirable for escaped paths to be printed as empty
    paths.  As there are not really any meaninful path components when
    considered from the perspective of a mount tree.
    
    So tweak prepend_path to return an empty path with an new error
    code of 3 when it encounters an escaped path.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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