exportfs: BUG_ON in crazy corner case

This would indicate a nasty bug in the dcache and has never triggered in
the past 10 years as far as I know.

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exportfs/expfs.c b/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
index c43fe9b39ff2..6d0a7fa9abb3 100644
--- a/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
+++ b/fs/exportfs/expfs.c
@@ -112,18 +112,14 @@ reconnect_path(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *target_dir, char *nbuf)
         while (target_dir->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED && noprogress++ < 10) {
                 struct dentry *pd = find_disconnected_root(target_dir);
 
+                BUG_ON(pd == mnt->mnt_sb->s_root);
+
                 if (!IS_ROOT(pd)) {
                         /* must have found a connected parent - great */
                         spin_lock(&pd->d_lock);
                         pd->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_DISCONNECTED;
                         spin_unlock(&pd->d_lock);
                         noprogress = 0;
-                } else if (pd == mnt->mnt_sb->s_root) {
-                        printk(KERN_ERR "export: Eeek filesystem root is not connected, impossible\n");
-                        spin_lock(&pd->d_lock);
-                        pd->d_flags &= ~DCACHE_DISCONNECTED;
-                        spin_unlock(&pd->d_lock);
-                        noprogress = 0;
                 } else {
                         /*
                          * We have hit the top of a disconnected path, try to