On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:59:47PM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > Well... In principle, you could mark all mountpoints in a tree as managed, > have an "expiry search in progress" flag to stop everything in there while > the expiry happens, then wait out all RCU walks in progress, then go ahead > with your expiry checks. Would that work for you? There's at least one leak I can see in expiry.c, BTW - autofs4_expire_direct() leaks root dentry if you hit /* No point expiring a pending mount */ if (ino->flags & AUTOFS_INF_PENDING) { spin_unlock(&sbi->fs_lock); return NULL; } in there. Try to stick dput(root) before that return and see if that's what it is... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html