Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ubifs: Fix inode leak in xattr code | From | Richard Weinberger <> | Date | Wed, 17 May 2017 00:20:14 +0200 |
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Artem,
Am 15.05.2017 um 18:05 schrieb Artem Bityutskiy: > On Mon, 2017-05-15 at 17:22 +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> Alternatively we could add a iget_locked/drop_nlink/iput sequence to >> ubifs_tnc_remove_ino(). But that will make unlink() much slower for >> files >> that contain xattrs. > > At that level we'd need to do it for every xattr, even those that were > never be accessed, which would be slow indeed. > > But we really only need to check the inode cache: hey, icache, I am > dying, and if you have any of my guys (xattrs), I want them to die with > me.
That turned out to be much easier than expected. Patch ahead!
Thanks, //richard
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