Re: mnt_count accounting broken

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Fri May 05 2000 - 12:14:47 EST


On Fri, 5 May 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here is the patch that fixes the problem. But I still want to understand
> why Linus put those extra dget/dput in mknod/link/unlink... perhaps they
> are needed after all.

Yes, they certainly are. Without them shrink_dcache_parent() will eat the
tree. It's not a solution.

> I re-attached my log so Linus could see what we are talking about.

[snip bogus patch]

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