Hi Markus, Marc, Here's a set of fixes to improve the interaction of arbitrary lookups in the AFS dynamic root that hit DNS lookup failures: (1) Always delete unused (particularly negative) dentries as soon as possible so that they don't prevent future lookups from retrying. (2) Fix the handling of new-style negative DNS lookups in ->lookup() to make them return ENOENT so that userspace doesn't get confused when stat succeeds but the following open on the looked up file then fails. (3) Fix key handling so that DNS lookup results are reclaimed as soon as they expire rather than sitting round either forever or for an additional 5 mins beyond a set expiry time returning EKEYEXPIRED. The patches can be found here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=afs-fixes Thanks, David David Howells (3): afs: Fix the dynamic root's d_delete to always delete unused dentries afs: Fix dynamic root lookup DNS check keys, dns: Allow key types (eg. DNS) to be reclaimed immediately on expiry fs/afs/dynroot.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++-------------- include/linux/key-type.h | 1 + net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c | 10 +++++++++- security/keys/gc.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++---------- security/keys/internal.h | 8 +++++++- security/keys/key.c | 15 +++++---------- security/keys/proc.c | 2 +- 7 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)