On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 12:14:26PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Yeah, this idea clearly doesn't work. But I wonder whether the > revised variant (which may be just moving cd_forget and bd_forget from > evict to iput_final) would work. How the hell is it better? Neither of those will happen as long as dentry is retained. And with /dev on tmpfs (which is bloody common) _that_ won't happen until device node is unlinked... -- 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