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Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:35:04 -0800
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 07/11] proc: flush task dcache entries from all procfs instances
On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:03 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> What's to prevent racing with fs shutdown while you are doing the second part?
I was thinking that only the proc_flush_task() code would do this.
And that holds a ref to the vfsmount through upid->ns.
So I wasn't suggesting doing this in general - just splitting up the
implementation of d_invalidate() so that proc_flush_task_mnt() could
delay the complex part to after having traversed the RCU-protected
list.
But hey - I missed this part of the problem originally, so maybe I'm
just missing something else this time. Wouldn't be the first time.
Linus
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