Hi.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 04:51:40PM -0500, Eric Paris (eparis@redhat.com) wrote:
> +DEFINE_MUTEX(fsnotify_grp_mutex);
> +struct srcu_struct fsnotify_grp_srcu_struct;
> +LIST_HEAD(fsnotify_groups);
> +__u64 fsnotify_mask;

Those can be static.

> +struct fsnotify_event *fsnotify_create_event(struct inode *to_tell, __u64 mask, void *data, int data_is)
> +{
> +	struct fsnotify_event *event;
> +
> +	event = kmem_cache_alloc(event_kmem_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!event)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	atomic_set(&event->refcnt, 1);
> +
> +	spin_lock_init(&event->lock);
> +
> +	event->path.dentry = NULL;
> +	event->path.mnt = NULL;
> +	event->inode = NULL;
> +
> +	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&event->private_data_list);
> +
> +	event->to_tell = to_tell;

What prevents this inode to be released?

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	Evgeniy Polyakov