Re: [PATCH v2] fs: make sure to fail try_to_unlazy() and try_to_unlazy() for LOOKUP_CACHED

[Mateusz Guzik]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 10:07 AM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 09:47:04AM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> > One remaining weirdness is terminate_walk() walking the symlink stack
> > after drop_links().
>
> What weirdness?  If we are not in RCU mode, we need to drop symlink bodies
> *and* drop symlink references?

One would expect a routine named drop_links() would handle the
entirety of clean up of symlinks.

Seeing how it only handles some of it, it should be renamed to better
indicate what it is doing, but that's a potential clean up for later.