Here's a series for fixing issues with d_drop on a directory dentry with children and adding support for such dropped directories in fuse. This one adds a helper for walking the dentry tree. This reduces code duplication and reduces the chances of a bug creeping into one of the instances. The only user of have_submounts() is now autofs4, but after discussing with Ian I'm still not sure how we should deal with that. Thanks, Miklos --- Anand Avati (1): fuse: drop dentry on failed revalidate Miklos Szeredi (9): vfs: add d_walk() vfs: check submounts and drop atomically vfs: check unlinked ancestors before mount afs: use check_submounts_and_drop() gfs2: use check_submounts_and_drop() nfs: use check_submounts_and_drop() sysfs: use check_submounts_and_drop() fuse: use d_materialise_unique() fuse: clean up return in fuse_dentry_revalidate() --- fs/afs/dir.c | 10 +- fs/dcache.c | 452 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ fs/fuse/dir.c | 97 +++++------ fs/gfs2/dentry.c | 9 +- fs/internal.h | 1 + fs/namespace.c | 9 + fs/nfs/dir.c | 9 +- fs/sysfs/dir.c | 20 +-- include/linux/dcache.h | 1 + 9 files changed, 364 insertions(+), 244 deletions(-) -- 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