On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Anyway, I've done nicer variants of that protection for everything except > fuse (hadn't gotten around to it yet); see vfs.git#experimental now: Ok, I did a quick test, and it looks ok here, so looking good for 3.13. However, the new smp_mb() in mntput_no_expire() is quite noticeable in the path lookup stress-test profiles. And I'm not seeing what that allegedly protects against, especially if mnt_ns is NULL (ie all the common important cases). Linus -- 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