On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 05:46:01AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > I really wonder if it's possible to get d_rehash() hitting the victim of > (non-exchange) __d_move(). _Then_ this patch (as well as the historical > behaviour it restores, all way back to 2.5, if not 2.3) would, indeed, > be buggy. More fun: what's going on in ceph_handle_notrace_create()? AFAICS, this struct dentry *result = ceph_lookup(dir, dentry, 0); if (result && !IS_ERR(result)) { /* * We created the item, then did a lookup, and found * it was already linked to another inode we already * had in our cache (and thus got spliced). Link our * dentry to that inode, but don't hash it, just in * case the VFS wants to dereference it. */ BUG_ON(!result->d_inode); d_instantiate(dentry, result->d_inode); return 0; } is bogus. What will happen if server goes nuts and that existing alias picked by lookup turns out to be a directory? And while we are at it, what's to prevent a leak if we ever hit that codepath, directory or no directory? Sage? -- 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