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Date:   Sun, 10 Jun 2018 06:49:10 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/11] vfs: factor out inode_insert5()
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On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:41:41PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
> 
> Split out common helper for race free insertion of an already allocated
> inode into the cache.  Use this from iget5_locked() and
> insert_inode_locked4().  Make iget5_locked() use new_inode()/iput() instead
> of alloc_inode()/destroy_inode() directly.

... thus hitting the sucker with ->evict_inode(), in condition that is quite
likely to be unfit to be seen by that.

NAK.