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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/18] exofs: use iput() for inode reference count decrements
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:41:14 +0200
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On 10/16/2010 06:29 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 06:56:50PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:21:21PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
>>> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> Direct modification of the inode reference count is a no-no. Convert
>>> the exofs decrements to call iput() instead of acting directly on
>>> i_count.
>>
>> Could this go to exofs maintainer and get merged as a bugfix?
> 
> I already pinged Boaz.
> 

Thanks guys

It'll be in linux-next in a few minutes, for 2.6.37 merge window.

I'm also testing if it could be removed all together. If I find
that it is needed, after all, I'll also CC stable@.

Boaz