linux-kernel - Re: [JANITOR PROPOSAL] Switch ioctl functions to ->unlocked

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Date:	Wed, 9 Jan 2008 23:46:03 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Alasdair G Kergon <agk@...hat.com>, Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>,
	Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, gorcunov@...il.com
Subject: Re: [JANITOR PROPOSAL] Switch ioctl functions to ->unlocked_ioctl

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:40:26PM +0000, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:12:40PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
> > You'll need to change the prototype, the unlocked version doesn't take
> > an inode. And you'll need to make sure that nothing in the function uses
> > the inode, which I think Andi forgot to mention.
>  
> This old chestnut again.  Perhaps we could have inode passed to unlocked_ioctl?
> I never understood why it wasn't there in the first place if the plan was for
> .unlocked_ioctl to supercede .ioctl whenever possible.

If you still need inode use

struct inode *inode = file->f_dentry->d_inode;

-Andi

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