Re: [PATCH] exfat: speed up file creation in large directories

[Yang Wen]

Hi Zhiling,

On 31 Aug 2026 09:10:32, Chi Zhiling wrote:

> The exfat_free_inode() could be called in softirq context, see 
> destroy_inode() in fs/inode.c, which calls free_inode() via call_rcu(),
> 
> so you can't call exfat_name_filter_free() from exfat_free_inode(). It 
> should be moved to exfat_evict_inode(), otherwise LOCKDEP will report a 
> warning.

Thanks for pointing this out. You are right that ->free_inode() may be
called from an RCU callback in softirq context.

I moved exfat_name_filter_free() from exfat_free_inode() to
exfat_evict_inode().

Thanks.