Re: slab corruption in test9 (NFS related?)

[Trond Myklebust]

>>>>> " " == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes:

     > In other words, your patch certainly looks obviously correct,
     > but it also looks _so_ obviously correct that my alarm bells
     > are going off. If the code was quite that broken at counting
     > dentries, how the hell did it ever work AT ALL?

Given that d_free() now uses rcu, and hence defers the actual call to
kmem_cache_free(), might that not suffice to explain why actual
consequences are rare?

Cheers,
  Trond
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