Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph fixes for 5.1-rc7

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Apr 26 2019 - 13:09:11 EST


On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:01 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> What I don't understand is why would anyone want to mess with
> name snapshots for dentry_path() lookalikes...

Talking about dentry_path()... Shouldn't the ceph path walking code
also check the mount_lock sequence to make sure the path is actually
stable?

Maybe it doesn't matter.

Linus