Re: fs/namei.c: Make status likely to be ECHILD in lookup_fast()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Dec 09 2020 - 15:59:56 EST


On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 20:35:00 +0000
Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > And most of the d_revalidate() functions have:
> >
> > if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
> > return -ECHILD;
>
> Umm... That depends upon the filesystem mix involved; said that, I'd rather
> drop that "unlikely"...

Sure enough. I'll send a v2.

Thanks,

-- Steve