On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 02:39:11PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > +static bool __has_unlinked_ancestor(struct dentry *dentry) > +{ > + struct dentry *this; > + > + for (this = dentry; !IS_ROOT(this); this = this->d_parent) { > + int is_unhashed; > + > + /* Need exclusion wrt. check_submounts_and_drop() */ > + spin_lock(&this->d_lock); > + is_unhashed = d_unhashed(this); > + spin_unlock(&this->d_lock); > + > + if (is_unhashed) > + return true; > + } > + return false; > +} I still don't get it; why do you need to bother with early setting of DCACHE_MOUNTED? You are grabbing rename_lock for write in d_set_mounted(). What kind of races with check for submounts are you worried about? d_walk() will rescan everything if something grabs rename_lock for write while it had been running, so just fold the "have nothing in d_subdir" case of check_submounts_and_drop() into d_walk() and be done with that... What's the problem with such variant? AFAICS, all you need to care about is d_set_mounted() not getting between the scan for submounts and actual __d_drop() and your "finish" callback is called only after d_walk() having grabbed d_lock *and* rechecked rename_lock. -- 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