linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] exfat: avoid incorrectly releasing for root inode

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Date:   Sat, 12 Jun 2021 09:57:16 +0900
From:   Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>
To:     Chen Li <chenli@...ontech.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sungjong Seo <sj1557.seo@...sung.com>,
        Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exfat: avoid incorrectly releasing for root inode

2021-06-09 12:48 GMT+09:00, Chen Li <chenli@...ontech.com>:
>
> In d_make_root, when we fail to allocate dentry for root inode,
> we will iput root inode and returned value is NULL in this function.
>
> So we do not need to release this inode again at d_make_root's caller.
>
> Signed-off-by: Chen Li <chenli@...ontech.com>
merged into #dev, Thanks for your patch!