linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: explicitly set control file's private

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Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:31:37 +0200
From:	Tom Van Braeckel <tomvanbraeckel@...il.com>
To:	Chris Mason <clm@...com>, jbacik@...com, dsterba@...e.cz,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tom Van Braeckel <tomvanbraeckel@...il.com>,
	Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] btrfs: explicitly set control file's private_data

Err, upon further inspection, I think that this was a false positive.

Btrfs relies on the initial value of the private_data member of a file
being NULL in the regular ioctl operation handler for
BTRFS_IOC_TRANS_START but it does not use the miscdevice framework for
those files.

It *does* use the miscdevice framework in the ioctl operation handler
of the /dev/btrfs-control file but there it does not use the file's
private_data member. So IMHO, the proposed patch is not necessary...
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