Re: [PATCH 4/7] proc: Use d_invalidate in proc_prune_siblings_dcache
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: 2020-02-20 22:54:33
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- 2020-02-20 · Re: [PATCH 4/7] proc: Use d_invalidate in proc_prune_siblings_dcache · Eric W. Biederman <hidden>
On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 02:49:53PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
The function d_prune_aliases has the problem that it will only prune aliases thare are completely unused. It will not remove aliases for the dcache or even think of removing mounts from the dcache. For that behavior d_invalidate is needed. To use d_invalidate replace d_prune_aliases with d_find_alias followed by d_invalidate and dput. This is safe and complete because no inode in proc has any hardlinks or aliases.
s/no inode.*/it's a fucking directory inode./