linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/9] VFS: Introduce a mount context

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Date:   Wed, 10 May 2017 14:31:54 +0100
From:   David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To:     Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>
Cc:     dhowells@...hat.com, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>,
        viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] VFS: Introduce a mount context

Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com> wrote:

> One idea might be to always kfree it on syscall entry

You can't do that otherwise there's no way to retrieve the strings.

David