On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 01:26:33PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote: > This will allow generating fsnotify delete events after the > fsnotify_nameremove() hook is removed from d_delete(). > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/debugfs/inode.c | 20 ++++---------------- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c > index acef14ad53db..bc96198df1d4 100644 > --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c > +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c > @@ -617,13 +617,10 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_symlink(const char *name, struct dentry *parent, > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_symlink); > > -static void __debugfs_remove_file(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *parent) > +static void __debugfs_file_removed(struct dentry *dentry) > { > struct debugfs_fsdata *fsd; > > - simple_unlink(d_inode(parent), dentry); > - d_delete(dentry); What happened to this call? Why no unlinking anymore? > - > /* > * Paired with the closing smp_mb() implied by a successful > * cmpxchg() in debugfs_file_get(): either > @@ -643,18 +640,9 @@ static int __debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *parent) > int ret = 0; > > if (simple_positive(dentry)) { > - dget(dentry); > - if (!d_is_reg(dentry)) { > - if (d_is_dir(dentry)) > - ret = simple_rmdir(d_inode(parent), dentry); > - else > - simple_unlink(d_inode(parent), dentry); > - if (!ret) > - d_delete(dentry); > - } else { > - __debugfs_remove_file(dentry, parent); > - } > - dput(dentry); > + ret = simple_remove(d_inode(parent), dentry); > + if (d_is_reg(dentry)) Can't dentry be gone here? This doesn't seem to match the same pattern as before. What am I missing? confused, greg k-h