Currently we do not revalidate dentries. I knew this is not correct for network filesystems, but as it turned out it is also not correct for devfs. In devfs files can be created/removed without the fs layer noticing, so have to check if a dentry is still valid before using it.
Sascha Hauer (2): fs: implement d_revalidate fs: devfs: implement d_revalidate hook fs/devfs.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/fs.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- include/linux/dcache.h | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.19.0 _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
