Re: [PATCH 03/19] fs: release anon dev_t in deactivate_locked_super

[Christian Brauner]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 08:23:31PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 05:58:05PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> > Incidentally, I'm going to add a (belated by 10 years) chunk in porting.rst
> > re making sure that anything in superblock that might be needed by methods
> > called in RCU mode should *not* be freed without an RCU delay...  Should've
> > done that back in 3.12 merge window when RCU'd vfsmounts went in; as it
> > is, today we have several filesystems with exact same kind of breakage.
> > hfsplus and affs breakage had been there in 3.13 (missed those two), exfat
> > and ntfs3 - introduced later, by initial merges of filesystems in question.
> > Missed on review...
> > 
> > Hell knows - perhaps Documentation/filesystems/whack-a-mole might be a good
> > idea...

pitfalls.rst or common-bugs.rst

or something like that.

> 
> Actually, utf8 casefolding stuff also has the same problem, so ext4 and f2fs
> with casefolding are also affected ;-/