Re: [PATCH v6 3/7] kernfs: use VFS negative dentry caching

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 04:50:27PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:

> +	if (d_really_is_negative(dentry)) {
> +		struct dentry *d_parent = dget_parent(dentry);
> +		struct kernfs_node *parent;

What the hell is dget_parent() for?  You don't do anything blocking
here, so why not simply grab dentry->d_lock - that'll stabilize
the value of ->d_parent just fine.  Just don't forget to drop the
lock before returning and that's it...

> +		/* If the kernfs parent node has changed discard and
> +		 * proceed to ->lookup.
> +		 */
> +		parent = kernfs_dentry_node(d_parent);
> +		if (parent) {
> +			if (kernfs_dir_changed(parent, dentry)) {
> +				dput(d_parent);
> +				return 0;
> +			}
> +		}
> +		dput(d_parent);
> +
> +		/* The kernfs node doesn't exist, leave the dentry
> +		 * negative and return success.
> +		 */
> +		return 1;
> +	}