From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: Reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes.
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:33:48 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497964CC.8070004@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1k58nffqm.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> The sysfs_dirent serves as both an inode and a directory entry
> for sysfs. To prevent the sysfs inode numbers from being freed
> prematurely hold a reference to sysfs_dirent from the sysfs inode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Thanks for working on this. Can you please add a comment explaining
it on top of sysfs_delete_inode()?
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-23 6:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-21 19:55 [PATCH] sysfs: Take sysfs_mutex when fetching the root inode Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-22 16:49 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-23 6:33 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2009-01-27 23:44 ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-28 0:47 ` Tejun Heo
2009-02-02 17:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-01-23 6:28 ` [PATCH] sysfs: Take sysfs_mutex when fetching the root inode Tejun Heo
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