linux-kernel - Re: Dcache oops

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Date:	Fri, 3 Jun 2016 18:42:04 -0400
From:	Oleg Drokin <green@...uxhacker.ru>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Mailing List" 
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"<linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dcache oops


On Jun 3, 2016, at 6:36 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 03:00:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>>> 
>>> Normally it's done at terminate_walk() time. But I note that in
>>> walk_component(), we do put_link(nd) which does a do_delayed_call(),
>>> but does *not* do a clear_delayed_call(), so now I think a subsequent
>>> terminate_walk() might drop it *again*.
>> 
>> Nope - put_link() also decrements nd->depth.  No double calls there...
> 
> Yeah, I figured that out, and then continued to try to look at other cases..
> 
> Happy to hear that you seem to have figured it out.
> 
> But why did it apparently only start happening now?

Apparently nobody runs NFS in a serious manner these days anymore.
EOPENSTALE is only used by NFS.