linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fscache: drop fscache_cookie_put on duplicated cookies in the hash

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Date:   Fri, 3 Apr 2020 15:48:57 +0100
From:   Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.com>
To:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-cachefs@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fscache: drop fscache_cookie_put on duplicated cookies
 in the hash

Ping?

Cheers,
--
Luis

On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 04:16:43PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> When there's a collision due to a duplicate cookie, __fscache_register_netfs
> will do an fscache_cookie_put.  This, however, isn't required as
> fscache_cookie_get hasn't been executed, and will lead to a NULL pointer as
> fscache_unhash_cookie will be called.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@...e.com>
> ---
>  fs/fscache/netfs.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/fscache/netfs.c b/fs/fscache/netfs.c
> index cce92216fa28..07a55371f0a4 100644
> --- a/fs/fscache/netfs.c
> +++ b/fs/fscache/netfs.c
> @@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ int __fscache_register_netfs(struct fscache_netfs *netfs)
>  	return 0;
>  
>  already_registered:
> -	fscache_cookie_put(candidate, fscache_cookie_put_dup_netfs);
>  	_leave(" = -EEXIST");
>  	return -EEXIST;
>  }