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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Fri, 26 Apr 2019 10:08:48 -0700
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Ceph fixes for 5.1-rc7
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
        Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>, ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org,
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On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 10:01 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> What I don't understand is why would anyone want to mess with
> name snapshots for dentry_path() lookalikes...

Talking about dentry_path()... Shouldn't the ceph path walking code
also check the mount_lock sequence to make sure the path is actually
stable?

Maybe it doesn't matter.

                  Linus