Re: [ 035/218] vfs: make O_PATH file descriptors usable for fstat()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The upstream version exchanges fget_light() for fget_raw_light().  Since
> 3.2 (and likewise 3.4) have fget() here, I cherry-picked e994def 'VFS:
> make vfs_fstat() use f[get|put]_light()' before this.  Was that a
> bad/good/neutral idea?

Pretty neutral, I don't think it matters. Doing like greg did and just
doing it with fget_raw() (without the cherry-pick) is fine too.

            Linus
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