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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, hch@lst.de, hughd@google.com,
	npiggin@kernel.dk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] shmem: put inode if alloc_file failed
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:03:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110310000324.GC22723@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110309145859.dbe31df5.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 02:58:59PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > +put_inode:
> > +	iput(inode);
> >  put_dentry:
> >  	path_put(&path);
> >  put_memory:
> 
> Is this correct?  We've linked the inode to the dentry with
> d_instantiate(), so the d_put() will do the iput() on the inode.


ITYM path_put() and yes, it will.  There's no leak.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-10  0:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-08  9:14 [PATCH] shmem: put inode if alloc_file failed Bob Liu
2011-03-08  9:15 ` [PATCH] shmem: using goto to replace several return Bob Liu
2011-03-09 23:01   ` Andrew Morton
2011-03-09 22:58 ` [PATCH] shmem: put inode if alloc_file failed Andrew Morton
2011-03-10  0:03   ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-03-11 10:12     ` Bob Liu
2011-03-11 10:20     ` Bob Liu

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