From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
overlayfs <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] vfs: factor out inode_insert5()
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:15:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfpegt5guR3zJeATw4-N41Ad2n9pcB5mQoLmSLOfocnEoodVg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180610060159.GS30522@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 8:02 AM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 06:49:10AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
>> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:41:41PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>> > From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
>> >
>> > Split out common helper for race free insertion of an already allocated
>> > inode into the cache. Use this from iget5_locked() and
>> > insert_inode_locked4(). Make iget5_locked() use new_inode()/iput() instead
>> > of alloc_inode()/destroy_inode() directly.
>>
>> ... thus hitting the sucker with ->evict_inode(), in condition that is quite
>> likely to be unfit to be seen by that.
>>
>> NAK.
>
> To clarify: objection here is against the switch to new_inode/iput. The rest is
> sane. What makes new_inode() better here, anyway?
Umm, got to look into this. The patch has already been pulled by
Linus, but I hope it's salvageable.
Thanks,
Miklos
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-11 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-29 14:41 [PATCH 00/11] overlayfs fixes Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:41 ` [PATCH 01/11] ovl: update documentation for unionmount-testsuite Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:41 ` [PATCH 02/11] ovl: remove WARN_ON() real inode attributes mismatch Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:41 ` [PATCH 03/11] ovl: strip debug argument from ovl_do_ helpers Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:41 ` [PATCH 04/11] ovl: struct cattr cleanups Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:41 ` [PATCH 05/11] ovl: return dentry from ovl_create_real() Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 15:24 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-05-30 8:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:41 ` [PATCH 06/11] ovl: create helper ovl_create_temp() Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:41 ` [PATCH 07/11] ovl: make ovl_create_real() cope with vfs_mkdir() safely Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 15:29 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-05-30 8:18 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:41 ` [PATCH 08/11] ovl: clean up copy-up error paths Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:41 ` [PATCH 09/11] vfs: factor out inode_insert5() Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-10 5:49 ` Al Viro
2018-06-10 6:02 ` Al Viro
2018-06-11 9:15 ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2018-06-11 11:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-06-11 16:43 ` Al Viro
2018-06-12 12:38 ` Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:41 ` [PATCH 10/11] ovl: Pass argument to ovl_get_inode() in a structure Miklos Szeredi
2018-05-29 14:41 ` [PATCH 11/11] ovl: use inode_insert5() to hash a newly created inode Miklos Szeredi
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