On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 11:43:54AM -0300, André Almeida wrote: > +/** > + * d_clear_dir_neg_dentries - Remove negative dentries in an inode > + * @dir: Directory to clear negative dentries > + * > + * For directories with negative dentries that are becoming case-insensitive > + * dirs, we need to remove all those negative dentries, otherwise they will > + * become dangling dentries. During the creation of a new file, if a d_hash > + * collision happens and the names match in a case-insensitive, the name of > + * the file will be the name defined at the negative dentry, that can be > + * different from the specified by the user. To prevent this from happening, we > + * need to remove all dentries in a directory. Given that the directory must be > + * empty before we call this function we are sure that all dentries there will > + * be negative. > + */ > +void d_clear_dir_neg_dentries(struct inode *dir) > +{ > + struct dentry *alias, *dentry; > + > + hlist_for_each_entry(alias, &dir->i_dentry, d_u.d_alias) { > + list_for_each_entry(dentry, &alias->d_subdirs, d_child) { > + d_drop(dentry); > + dput(dentry); > + } > + } > +} That makes no sense whatsoever. 1) directories can never have more than one alias 2) what the hell are you doing to refcounts on those children?