[PATCH 4/7] proc: Use d_invalidate in proc_prune_siblings_dcache

Linus Torvalds torvalds at linux-foundation.org
Thu Feb 20 23:00:13 UTC 2020


On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 2:54 PM Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> s/no inode.*/it's a directory inode./

That actually makes my worry go away too. We don't allow aliases for
directory inodes, iirc.

So then it doesn't depend on some /proc implementation issue any more,
then it's fundamental that there's only one dentry.

            Linus



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