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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>,
	linux-fscrypt@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>,
	David Oberhollenzer <david.oberhollenzer@sigma-star.at>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Question on fscrypt_d_revalidate() and fstest generic/429
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 00:50:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170515235035.GO390@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <489e1437-990f-3e88-d426-b47b82441009@nod.at>

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 09:51:03PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:

> > I doubt it's the right solution to make fscrypt_d_revalidate() look at
> > ->i_nlink, since ->d_revalidate() is meant to validate the filename, not the
> > inode.  I think there is probably a VFS bug that is causing the dentries to not
> > be freed.
> 
> Not sure. Al? :-)

What's to tell VFS that they are garbage?  If your code doesn't do it,
VFS has no way to know.  And I certainly agree that using ->d_revalidate()
to trigger their unhashing is a bloody odd design; take it up with whoever
had come up with it...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-05-15 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-15 14:39 Question on fscrypt_d_revalidate() and fstest generic/429 Richard Weinberger
2017-05-15 19:45 ` Eric Biggers
2017-05-15 19:51   ` Richard Weinberger
2017-05-15 23:25     ` Eric Biggers
2017-05-16  6:47       ` Richard Weinberger
2017-05-16 22:07         ` Eric Biggers
2017-05-16 22:27           ` Richard Weinberger
2017-05-15 23:50     ` Al Viro [this message]
2017-05-16 11:22       ` Richard Weinberger

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