Hi all, Here is v3 of the patch series. I've taken all of the feedback, thanks Amir, Christian, Hilf, et al. Differences are noted in each patch. I caught an obvious and silly dentry reference leak: d_find_any_alias() returns a reference, which I never called dput() on. With that change, I no longer see the rpc_pipefs issue, but I do think I need more testing and thinking through the third patch. Al, I'd love your feedback on that one especially. Thanks, Stephen Stephen Brennan (3): fsnotify: Use d_find_any_alias to get dentry associated with inode fsnotify: Protect i_fsnotify_mask and child flags with inode rwsem fsnotify: allow sleepable child flag update fs/notify/fsnotify.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++------- fs/notify/fsnotify.h | 13 +++- fs/notify/mark.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++----------- include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h | 1 + 4 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 68 deletions(-) -- 2.34.1