Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] kernfs: proposed locking and concurrency improvement

[Ian Kent]

On Sun, 2020-12-20 at 07:52 +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-12-19 at 11:23 -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 03:08:13PM +0800, Ian Kent wrote:
> > > And looking further I see there's a race that kernfs can't do
> > > anything
> > > about between kernfs_refresh_inode() and
> > > fs/inode.c:update_times().
> > 
> > Do kernfs files end up calling into that path tho? Doesn't look
> > like
> > it to
> > me but if so yeah we'd need to override the update_time for kernfs.

You are correct, update_time() will only be called during symlink
following and only to update atime.

So this isn't sufficient to update the inode attributes to reflect
changes make by things like kernfs_setattr() or when the directory
link count changes ...

Sigh!