On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 10:36:30AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > Not all filesystems reliably result in a positive hashed dentry: > > - NFS, cifs, hostfs will sometimes need to perform a lookup of > the name to get inode information. Races could result in this > returning something different. Note that this lookup is > non-atomic which is what we are trying to avoid. Placing the > lookup in filesystem code means it only happens when the filesystem > has no other option. At least in case of cifs I don't see that lookup anywhere in your series. Have I missed it, or...?
