On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 03:42 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 03:26:17AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > I've applied slightly modified variant of Jeff's "vfs: allow umount to handle > > mountpoints without revalidating them" (modified by just leaving the > > struct path filled with mountpoint and leaving the equivalent of follow_mount() > > to caller) to the local queue and I'm pretty sure that it's what we want > > here as well. > > ... and killed the modifications since the result ends up uglier for > caller(s) anyway. Reapplied as-is. But isn't that what's needed anyway? Looks like it fits with the existing code that walks back down looking for a match. And that fits in with fixing the bug where we want the first match just means breaking out early. The match should be close to the top, if not the first then the second, for the common case. Ian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html