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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kernel BUG in fs/dcache.c running nfs
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 00:08:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140926230801.GR7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140910135739.2b897d94@notabene.brown>

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:57:39PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:

> The d_drop();d_add(); pattern is used a number of times in NFS, but what I
> didn't notice before is that it is only used if ->d_inode is NULL.

And the point of that "pattern" would be...?  If dentry is already negative
and hashed, it does nothing whatsoever.  If it is negative and unhashed,
d_drop() is a no-op, obviously.  And if it's positive, we get a nice
shiny oops.

Where are we doing anything of that sort, anyway?  I see a bloody odd
instance in nfs_atomic_open() and that's it.  Note that nfs_instantiate()
is different (and not necessary nice - that d_drop() in case when this
sucker is called from mkdir() is asking for races with mount()).  How
do we get a positive hashed dentry there, anyway?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-26 23:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-08 14:45 kernel BUG in fs/dcache.c running nfs Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09 14:59 ` Jeff Layton
2014-09-09 15:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-09-09 16:12     ` Jeff Layton
2014-09-09 16:15       ` Jeff Layton
2014-09-09 17:50         ` Jeff Layton
2014-09-10  3:57           ` NeilBrown
2014-09-10 11:59             ` Jeff Layton
2014-09-11  6:20               ` NeilBrown
2014-09-26 23:08             ` Al Viro [this message]
2014-09-29  1:35               ` NeilBrown
2014-09-09 16:59   ` Trond Myklebust
2014-09-09 17:28     ` Jeff Layton

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