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From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:08:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:01 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > What I don't understand is why would anyone want to mess with
> > name snapshots for dentry_path() lookalikes...
> 
> Talking about dentry_path()... Shouldn't the ceph path walking code
> also check the mount_lock sequence to make sure the path is actually
> stable?
> 
> Maybe it doesn't matter.

They want it relative to fs root - after all, server doesn't know or
care what's mounted where on client...