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Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:55:28 +0100
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Hi Jack,

On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Jack David <jd6589@gmail.com> wrote:
> Okay, I tried container_of, but it did not work. So I tried
> d_obtain_alias() which worked.
>
> But I am not sure if I ?have to make a call to dput() as well in order
> to free the dentry obtained.
> Anyone can confirm this?

since d_obtain_alias() calls dput when something goes wrong after
allocating the dentry, I'm assuming that you also have to call dput to
free the dentry.



Philipp