On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 01:19:19PM +0530, Vaishali Thakkar wrote: > Hi, > > Just a question regarding this change. As after this change > dput() is sleepable, is it still safe to use if under the > spinlock in the function d_prune_aliases?
It has always been sleepable and it wouldn't have been safe to use under spinlocks. Which d_prune_aliases() does not do - __dentry_kill() is called with dentry, its parent and its inode (if present) all locked and it drops all those locks before returning.
