linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Free the temporary vfsmount created in bdev_cache

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Date:	Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:49:55 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Cheng Renquan <crquan@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Free the temporary vfsmount created in
	bdev_cache_init()

On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 12:07:37PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> The vfsmount structure allocated in this function (the bd_mnt local
> variable) is only used to obtain the blockdev_superblock and there are
> no other references to it. This structure can be safely freed (and
> prevent kmemleak from reporting it).

NAK.  This kind of kludges is simply not worth doing.  Store the
pointer to vfsmount into a static-in-file variable if you want
to get kmemleak to STFU.

Savings on a vfsmount are not worth neurons needed to remember that
in this particular case we are OK to do something that is utterly
wrong in general (free_vfsmnt() is a very low-level stuff that shouldn't
be used outside of namespace.c and super.c).
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