On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 6:12 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2020 at 05:35:46PM -0800, Daniel Rosenberg wrote: > > > Again, is that safe in case when the contents of the string str points to > keeps changing under you? I'm not sure what you mean. I thought it was safe to use the str and len passed into d_compare. Even if it gets changed under RCU conditions I thought there was some code to ensure that the name/len pair passed in is consistent, and any other inconsistencies would get caught by d_seq later. Are there unsafe code paths that can follow?