linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfs: force reval on dentry of bind mounted files on FS_REVAL

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Date:	Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:21:20 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, jlayton@...hat.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jamie@...reable.org, pavel@....cz, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
	duaneg@...da.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vfs: force reval on dentry of bind mounted files on FS_REVAL_DOT filesystems

On Thu, 03 Dec 2009, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Ah.  I thought you were thinking about the mandatory have_submounts()
> check in dentry->d_op->d_revalidate().
> 
> I expect the generic d_invalidate will simply hit the:
> 	spin_lock(&dcache_lock);
> 	if (d_unhashed(dentry)) {
> 		spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
> 		return 0;
> 	}
> 
> After the distributed filesystem has called d_drop in
> dentry->d_op->d_revalidate (when appropriate.

Ah, right, NFS's d_revalidate does do d_drop().  Okay, I have no
problem with the patch, as long as path lookup performance doesn't
show a regression.

Thanks,
Miklos
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