Re: [git pull] vfs patches

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:05:59AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 	dget(save.dentry);
> 	mntget(save.mnt);
> 	...
> 	path_put(&save);
> 
> which looks very strange compared to the natural sequence:
> 
> 	path_get(&save);
> 	..
> 	path_put(&save);
> 
> and yes, I realize the code was just moved (and the reason for the mixing 
> is that the "path_put()" conversion was done much more aggressively, as 
> the ordering matters), but I'm bringing this up in the hope somebody has 
> the energy to clean things like up some day...

*nod*

Keep in mind that there's a lot more coming post-.25; FWIW, there's another
bunch of patches that probably ought to go before .25 (mount expiry stuff;
I'll do a bit of reordering and probably ask to pull tomorrow).

The next couple of cycles is going to get interesting around
fs/{namei,namespace,pnode,super,dentry}.c