Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 Jan 2004 12:19:20 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Inconsistency in sysfs behavior? |
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On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 04:02:42PM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote: > > The problem is that we have live references to the kobject dentry but > kobject is gone. Problems can occur if kobject is accessed > through dentry->d_fsdata field. The fix I did was to take a ref. to the > kobject while linking the dentry with the kobject in create_dir(). This > ref. can be released when dentry ref. count goes to zero, that is when > dentry is being freed, through dentry->d_op->d_iput() call. With this > patch we can have a kobject alive during the life time of the corresponding > dentry. > > Please comment.
This is the patch already in the -mm tree, right? I think it's already in Pat's pending queue of patches to send off (we're a bit hampered by the weather right now in this part of the world...)
thanks,
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