linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] locks: fix leaks on setlease errors

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Date:	Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:10:57 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Bryan Schumaker <bjschuma@...app.com>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] locks: fix leaks on setlease errors

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 05:31:14PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> We're depending on setlease to free the passed-in lease on failure.

But we would be much better to just free it in the caller.  I'ts much
more natural - caller allocates, caller frees, and it's also simpler.

I'll send a patch to do so shortly, together with sorting out the
remaining nfs4d lock_manager_operations abuses.  I think we're set with
that for 2.6.37, the setlease split can wait once we've sorted out the
lock freeing issue.

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