On Jun 3, 2016, at 6:36 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 03:00:02PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >>>> >>> Normally it's done at terminate_walk() time. But I note that in >>> walk_component(), we do put_link(nd) which does a do_delayed_call(), >>> but does *not* do a clear_delayed_call(), so now I think a subsequent >>> terminate_walk() might drop it *again*. >> >> Nope - put_link() also decrements nd->depth. No double calls there... > > Yeah, I figured that out, and then continued to try to look at other cases.. > > Happy to hear that you seem to have figured it out. > > But why did it apparently only start happening now?
Apparently nobody runs NFS in a serious manner these days anymore. EOPENSTALE is only used by NFS.
