linux-kernel - Re: Anonymous inode cleanup?

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Message-ID: <CAA93t1pR1KMHLfSU4Tw_NLm0QCm-4YwazaLXKMoxver3eEguLQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:25:08 -0800
From:	Rajat Jain <rajatxjain@...il.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Anonymous inode cleanup?

Thanks a lot!

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 01:10:10PM -0800, Rajat Jain wrote:
>> I see reference taken for the path and module in anon_inode_getfile()
>>
>> Don't I need to drop that, or would fput() do it for me?
>>
>>         path_put(&path);
>
>         dput(dentry);
>         mntput(mnt);
> in the very end of __fput()
>
>>         module_put(fops->owner);
>
>         fops_put(file->f_op);
> slightly earlier in the same function.
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