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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH - V2] VFS: allow ->d_manage() to declare -EISDIR in
 rcu_walk mode.
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 09:57:31 +0100
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Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>, autofs@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org

On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 05:06:29PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> In REF-walk mode, ->d_manage can return -EISDIR to indicate
> that the dentry is not really a mount trap (or even a mount point)
> and that any mounts or any DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT flag should be
> ignored.
> 
> RCU-walk mode doesn't currently support this, so if there is a dentry
> with DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT set but which shouldn't be a mount-trap,
> lookup_fast() will always drop in REF-walk mode.
> 
> With this patch, an -EISDIR from ->d_manage will always cause mounts
> and automounts to be ignored, both in REF-walk and RCU-walk.

In queue.  Right now I'm trying to linearize the damn acct fixes from late
April, needed to get Eric's umount-on-rmdir series into the mix safely ;-/
Hopefully I'll have something pushable by Tuesday; your patch definitely
will be in the pile.