Re: [PATCH 2.6.24-rc4] proc: Remove/Fix proc generic d_revalidate

["Denis V. Lunev" <den@sw.ru>]

could you, plz, check patch sent by Eric above in this thread.

I have tried it on my test node and it works for module you have
provided. The problem exists without it.

Regards,
	Den

Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Ultimately to implement /proc perfectly we need an implementation
>> of d_revalidate because files and directories can be removed behind
>> the back of the VFS, and d_revalidate is the only way we can let
>> the VFS know that this has happened.
>>
>> So until we get a proper test for keeping dentries in the dcache
>> fix the current d_revalidate method by completely removing it.  This
>> returns us to the current status quo.
> 
> Hello,
>    I know that I'm late to the party, but mount points is not only
> problem with d_revalidate.  With your patch in place module below gets
> refcount incremented by two every time I do 'ls -la /proc/fs/vmblock'.
> 
> 
> #include <linux/kernel.h>
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
> 
> static int vmblockinit(void) {
>    struct proc_dir_entry *controlProcDirEntry;
> 
>    /* Create /proc/fs/vmblock */
>    controlProcDirEntry = proc_mkdir("vmblock", proc_root_fs);
>    if (!controlProcDirEntry) {
>       printk(KERN_DEBUG "Bad...\n");
>       return -EINVAL;
>    }
>    controlProcDirEntry->owner = THIS_MODULE;
>    return 0;
> }
> 
> static void vmblockexit(void) {
>    remove_proc_entry("vmblock", proc_root_fs);
> }
> 
> module_init(vmblockinit);
> module_exit(vmblockexit);
> 
> 
> (code comes from VMware's vmblock module,
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=204462)
>                         Thanks,
>                             Petr
> 
>