linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 10/11] ext4: remove useless brelse call in ext4_xattr_inode_update

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Message-ID: <20181106224954.GI2570@thunk.org>
Date:   Tue, 6 Nov 2018 17:49:54 -0500
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 10/11] ext4: remove useless brelse call in
 ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref()

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 12:58:46AM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
> brelse(iloc.bh) is useless here, it is always called with iloc.bh = NULL
> 
> Fixes dec214d00e0d ("ext4: xattr inode deduplication") # 4.13
> cc: Tahsin Erdogan <tahsin@...gle.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@...tuozzo.com>

Applied.  I droppped the "Fixes" since it's really not needed for
stable kernel; this is really more of a cleanup.  I used the commit
description:

    ext4: remove unneeded brelse call in ext4_xattr_inode_update_ref()

    	  	 	  	      - Ted