From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Detaching mounts on unlink for 3.15 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 23:14:56 +0100 Message-ID: <20140417221456.GD18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <20140413053956.GM18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <87zjjp3e7w.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87ppkl1xb7.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20140413215242.GP18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <87y4z8uzqw.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87ppkhc4pp.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87ha5r3emw.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20140417202237.GA18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <87tx9rwsz4.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20140417221203.GC18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Linux-Fsdevel , Kernel Mailing List , Andy Lutomirski , Rob Landley , Miklos Szeredi , Christoph Hellwig , Karel Zak , "J. Bruce Fields" , Fengguang Wu , tytso@mit.edu To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140417221203.GC18016@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 11:12:03PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > * *KERNEL* vfsmounts; anything without MNT_INTERNAL is fair game > as far as ordering of fs shutdown is concerned. If it wasn't MNT_INTERNAL, > and we'd done mntput() before destroying some data structures needed for s/before/just before/, of course ;-) > fs shutdown, we had been fucked anyway - no warranties that mntput() had > been the final one. Moreover, that means going through kern_unmount() or > simple_release_fs(). Which is trivially dealt with by providing > mntput_sync(mnt) that *will* wait and using it in those two. Again, if > we have an extra reference (e.g. stuffed into a struct file, etc.) - > we can't rely on mntput() being final.