Re: [PATCH v2] fuse: send forget req when lookup outarg is invalid

From: Miklos Szeredi

Date: Fri Feb 27 2026 - 10:43:49 EST


On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 at 13:50, Zhang Tianci
<zhangtianci.1997@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> We shall send forget request if lookup/create/open success but returned
> outarg.attr is invalid, because FUSEdaemon had increase the lookup count

These are cases when the fuse daemon is broken anyway. Keeping it
working does not make much sense, and adds complexity to the kernel.

So NAK unless there's a use case which explains why this would be a good thing.

Thanks,
Miklos