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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 1eb76959d09..ccf0ce7866b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -346,3 +346,17 @@ look at examples of other filesystems) for guidance. for details of what locks to replace dcache_lock with in order to protect particular things. Most of the time, a filesystem only needs ->d_lock, which protects *all* the dcache state of a given dentry. + +-- +[mandatory] + + Filesystems must RCU-free their inodes, if they can have been accessed +via rcu-walk path walk (basically, if the file can have had a path name in the +vfs namespace). + + i_dentry and i_rcu share storage in a union, and the vfs expects +i_dentry to be reinitialized before it is freed, so an: + + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&inode->i_dentry); + +must be done in the RCU callback. |