On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 05:46:01AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> I really wonder if it's possible to get d_rehash() hitting the victim of
> (non-exchange) __d_move(). _Then_ this patch (as well as the historical
> behaviour it restores, all way back to 2.5, if not 2.3) would, indeed,
> be buggy.
More fun: what's going on in ceph_handle_notrace_create()? AFAICS, this
struct dentry *result = ceph_lookup(dir, dentry, 0);
if (result && !IS_ERR(result)) {
/*
* We created the item, then did a lookup, and found
* it was already linked to another inode we already
* had in our cache (and thus got spliced). Link our
* dentry to that inode, but don't hash it, just in
* case the VFS wants to dereference it.
*/
BUG_ON(!result->d_inode);
d_instantiate(dentry, result->d_inode);
return 0;
}
is bogus. What will happen if server goes nuts and that existing alias picked
by lookup turns out to be a directory? And while we are at it, what's to
prevent a leak if we ever hit that codepath, directory or no directory?
Sage?
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