linux-kernel - Re: [ 035/218] vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for fstat()

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Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2012 16:44:28 -0700
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	ольга крыжановская <olga.kryzhanovska@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [ 035/218] vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for fstat()

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The upstream version exchanges fget_light() for fget_raw_light().  Since
> 3.2 (and likewise 3.4) have fget() here, I cherry-picked e994def 'VFS:
> make vfs_fstat() use f[get|put]_light()' before this.  Was that a
> bad/good/neutral idea?

Pretty neutral, I don't think it matters. Doing like greg did and just
doing it with fget_raw() (without the cherry-pick) is fine too.

            Linus
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