Re: [PATCH 0/4 v3] fs: Remove i_devices from struct inode

From: Al Viro
Date: Tue Nov 04 2014 - 15:20:32 EST


On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 12:14:26PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

> Yeah, this idea clearly doesn't work. But I wonder whether the
> revised variant (which may be just moving cd_forget and bd_forget from
> evict to iput_final) would work.

How the hell is it better? Neither of those will happen as long as dentry
is retained. And with /dev on tmpfs (which is bloody common) _that_ won't
happen until device node is unlinked...
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