Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Going by the documentation of d_revalidate: >> This function should return a positive value if the dentry is still >> valid, and zero or a negative error code if it isn't. > > In case of error, can we try returning the rc itself (rather than 0), > and see if VFS avoids a dentry put? > Because theoretically, the call execution has failed, and the dentry > is not found to be invalid. AFAIK mount points are pinned, you cannot rm or mv them so it seems we could make them always valid. I don't know if there are deeper and more subtle implications. The recent signal fixes are not fixing this issue. Cheers, -- Aurélien Aptel / SUSE Labs Samba Team GPG: 1839 CB5F 9F5B FB9B AA97 8C99 03C8 A49B 521B D5D3 SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, DE GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah HRB 247165 (AG München)
