Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 2008 17:41:03 +0100 | | From | Al Viro <> | | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.26-rc4 |
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On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:35:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Ian Kent wrote: > > > > The code we're talking about deals with a race between expiring and > > mounting an autofs mount point at the same time. > > > > I'll have a closer look and see if I can make it work without turning > > the dentry negative. > > Hmm. > > Can you walk me through this? > > If the dentry is unhashed, it means that it _either_ > > - has already been deleted (rmdir'ed) or d_invalidate()'d. Right? > > I don't see why you should ever return the dentry in this case..
From my reading of that code looks like it's been rmdir'ed. And no, I don't understand what the hell is that code trying to do.
Ian, could you describe the race you are talking about?
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