linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm fixes

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Message-ID: <1275946768.17903.5126.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:39:28 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm fixes

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 14:17 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and that changelog doesn't really explain it either ("fix leak"? Ok, I can 
> see the iput() fixing the leak - but you also did that jffs2_clear_inode() 
> change, and that has no explanation what-so-ever.

jffs2_clear_inode() is the file system's ->clear_inode method, so it
gets called from the VFS when the inode is destroyed, after iput().

I suppose that ought to have been a clue, right from the very beginning,
that we should never have been calling it directly on our error paths.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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