Hi, For your information, the commit bbd5192412fdedbae00888316bfe350bf89d0458 (proc: Update proc_flush_task_mnt to use d_invalidate), in the v3.17, break some userland use of procfs. In a user namespace, I'm using /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/fdinfo to mount a tmpfs, chdir into it, terminate the <tid> thread, and use the tmpfs as a private working directory for PID 1. This trick is useful to disconnect/d_drop a directory from the current file system and make it inaccessible to the other processes (kind of an O_TMPFILE for directory). With the v3.17 this is no more possible because it's no more possible to mount anything in this tmpfs nor use the previously mounted file systems in this tmpfs. The new d_invalidate is really good to lazily invalidate/umount an entire hierarchy but I'm not sure the intention was to remove this useful "feature" ;) Mickaël
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