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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>,
	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: check dentry is still valid in get_link()
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 03:03:52 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YeYuGO07rVakDpS+@zeniv-ca.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0f6c2348dae2c47ea46a986884a75fc7d44bb6fb.camel@themaw.net>

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:31:53AM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:

> Wouldn't that case be caught by the unlazy call since ->get_link()
> needs to return -ECHILD for the rcu case now (in xfs anyway)?

*shrug*

that'd solve the problem, all right, but it's a serious overkill in
several respects.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-18  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-10  9:11 [PATCH] vfs: check dentry is still valid in get_link() Ian Kent
2022-01-15  6:38 ` Al Viro
2022-01-17  2:55   ` Ian Kent
2022-01-17 14:35     ` Brian Foster
2022-01-17 16:28       ` Al Viro
2022-01-17 18:10         ` Al Viro
2022-01-17 19:48           ` Al Viro
2022-01-18  1:32             ` Al Viro
2022-01-18  2:31               ` Ian Kent
2022-01-18  3:03                 ` Al Viro [this message]
2022-01-18 13:47               ` Brian Foster
2022-01-18 18:25                 ` Brian Foster
2022-01-18 19:20                   ` Al Viro
2022-01-18 20:58                     ` Brian Foster
2022-01-18  8:29           ` Christian Brauner
2022-01-18 16:04             ` Al Viro
2022-01-19  9:05               ` Christian Brauner
2022-01-17 18:42         ` Brian Foster
2022-01-18  3:00         ` Dave Chinner
2022-01-18  3:17           ` Al Viro
2022-01-18  4:12             ` Dave Chinner
2022-01-18  5:58               ` Al Viro
2022-01-18 23:25                 ` Dave Chinner
2022-01-19 14:08                   ` Brian Foster
2022-01-19 22:07                     ` Dave Chinner
2022-01-20 16:03                       ` Brian Foster
2022-01-20 16:34                         ` Brian Foster

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