linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V4 04/12] kernfs: don't set dentry->d

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Date:   Thu, 29 Jun 2017 14:51:04 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        tj@...nel.org, hch@....de, axboe@...com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        lizefan@...wei.com, Kernel-team@...com, Shaohua Li <shli@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4 04/12] kernfs: don't set dentry->d_fsdata

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 09:29:54AM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
> From: Shaohua Li <shli@...com>
> 
> When working on adding exportfs operations in kernfs, I found it's hard
> to initialize dentry->d_fsdata in the exportfs operations. Looks there
> is no way to do it without race condition. Look at the kernfs code
> closely, there is no point to set dentry->d_fsdata. inode->i_private
> already points to kernfs_node, and we can get inode from a dentry. So
> this patch just delete the d_fsdata usage.
> 
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@...com>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>