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...