linux-kernel - Re: fs/namei.c: Make status likely to be ECHILD in lookup

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Date:   Wed, 9 Dec 2020 15:58:28 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fs/namei.c: Make status likely to be ECHILD in lookup_fast()

On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 20:35:00 +0000
Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> > And most of the d_revalidate() functions have:
> > 
> > 	if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
> > 		return -ECHILD;  
> 
> Umm...  That depends upon the filesystem mix involved; said that, I'd rather
> drop that "unlikely"...

Sure enough. I'll send a v2.

Thanks,

-- Steve