Re: [cifs] semantics of IPC$ shares (was Re: [PATCH] devpts: Fix NULL pointer dereference in dcache_readdir())

Your questions are interesting and rarely asked. On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 11:57 AM Al Viro wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 05:02:20PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > > > * (possibly) cifs hitting the same on eviction by memory pressure > > alone > > (no locked inodes anywhere in sight). Possibly

[cifs] semantics of IPC$ shares (was Re: [PATCH] devpts: Fix NULL pointer dereference in dcache_readdir())

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 05:02:20PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > * (possibly) cifs hitting the same on eviction by memory pressure alone > (no locked inodes anywhere in sight). Possibly == if cifs IPC$ share happens > to > show up non-empty (e.g. due to server playing silly buggers). > * (