On Friday 16 September 2016 05:40 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 01:19:19PM +0530, Vaishali Thakkar wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just a question regarding this change. As after this change >> dput() is sleepable, is it still safe to use if under the >> spinlock in the function d_prune_aliases? > > It has always been sleepable and it wouldn't have been safe to use > under spinlocks. Which d_prune_aliases() does not do - __dentry_kill() > is called with dentry, its parent and its inode (if present) all locked and > it drops all those locks before returning. Ah, I see. Alright. Thanks for the clarification. > -- Vaishali -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html