All of the previously reported strangeness was caused by an extra

dput and a missing mntget -- NB: dentry_open inherits the references
from the nameidata, so in this case we need to pass in extra dentry
and vfsmount refs.

diff --git a/lustre/llite/llite_internal.h b/lustre/llite/llite_internal.h
index 2cd2d5f..4ad7333 100644 (file)
--- a/lustre/llite/llite_internal.h
+++ b/lustre/llite/llite_internal.h
@@ -242,7 +242,7 @@ void ll_try_done_writing(struct inode *inode);
 void ll_queue_done_writing(struct inode *inode);
 void ll_close_thread_shutdown(struct ll_close_queue *lcq);
 int ll_close_thread_start(struct ll_close_queue **lcq_ret);
-int ll_dir_process_mount_object(struct dentry *, struct nameidata *);
+int ll_dir_process_mount_object(struct dentry *, struct vfsmount *);
 
 /* generic */
 #define LL_SUPER_MAGIC 0x0BD00BD0