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Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 20:28:39 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/19] VFS: lock dentry for ->revalidate to avoid races
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On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 04:42:50PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:

> +	if (dentry->d_flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {

Really?