Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Jun 2017 15:00:00 -0400 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 04/12] kernfs: don't set dentry->d_fsdata |
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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:17:12AM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote: > From: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com> > > When working on adding exportfs operations in kernfs, I found it's hard > to initialize dentry->d_fsdata in the exportfs operations. Looks there > is no way to do it without race condition. Look at the kernfs code > closely, there is no point to set dentry->d_fsdata. inode->i_private > already points to kernfs_node, and we can get inode from a dentry. So > this patch just delete the d_fsdata usage. > > Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Thanks.
-- tejun
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