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Message-ID: <20080209050910.GE1428@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 00:09:10 -0500
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hch@....de, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
viro@....linux.org.uk, miklos@...redi.hu
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 06/30] make open_namei() return a filp
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:26:54PM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> open_namei() will, in the future, need to take mount write counts
> over its creation and truncation (via may_open()) operations. It
> needs to keep these write counts until any potential filp that is
> created gets __fput()'d.
>
> This gets complicated in the error handling and becomes very murky
> as to how far open_namei() actually got, and whether or not that
> mount write count was taken.
>
> Creating the filps inside of open_namei() lets us shift the write
> count to be taken and released along with the filp. We can hold
> a temporary write count during those creation and truncation
> operations, then release them once the write for the filp has
> been established.
>
> Any caller who gets a 'struct file' back must consider that filp
> instantiated and fput() it normally. The callers no longer
> have to worry about ever manually releasing a mnt write count.
This patch description is not correct anymore, open_namei is actually
gone with this patch as it got merged into do_filp_open.
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