On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 12:44:51AM +0000, Trond Myklebust wrote: > That would have to be a really tight race, since the code in _nfs4_open_and_get_state() currently reads: > > d_drop(dentry); > alias = d_exact_alias(dentry, state->inode); > if (!alias) > alias = d_splice_alias(igrab(state->inode), dentry); > > IOW: something would have to be acting between the d_drop() and d_splice_alias() above... How? dentry is * negative (it would better be, or we are _really_ fucked) * unhashed How does whoever's rehashing it stumble across that thing? -- 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
