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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 57bb3754a027..8810e2367fe6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -531,3 +531,11 @@ in your dentry operations instead. dentry might be yet to be attached to inode, so do _not_ use its ->d_inode in the instances. Rationale: !@#!@# security_d_instantiate() needs to be called before we attach dentry to inode. +-- +[mandatory] + symlinks are no longer the only inodes that do *not* have i_bdev/i_cdev/ + i_pipe/i_link union zeroed out at inode eviction. As the result, you can't + assume that non-NULL value in ->i_nlink at ->destroy_inode() implies that + it's a symlink. Checking ->i_mode is really needed now. In-tree we had + to fix shmem_destroy_callback() that used to take that kind of shortcut; + watch out, since that shortcut is no longer valid. |