From: hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp
To: viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Q. d_alloc() in pipe(2)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:55:20 +0900
Message-ID: <20021.1262066120@jrobl>
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In pipe(2), create_write_pipe() creates a dentry by
	struct qstr name = { .name = "" };
	d_alloc(root, &name);

But d_alloc() refers name->len which is uninitialized.
Isn't it better to replace d_alloc() by d_alloc_name(root, "")?


J. R. Okajima
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