[PATCH 3/5] remove spurious VN_HOLD/VN_RELE calls from xfs_acl.c

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>]

All the ACL routines are called from inode operations which are
guaranteed to have a referenced inode by the VFS, so there's no need
for the ACL code to grab another temporary one.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_acl.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_acl.c 2008-07-23 19:40:19.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_acl.c      2008-07-23 19:40:37.000000000 +0200
@@ -217,7 +217,6 @@ xfs_acl_vget(
        posix_acl_xattr_header  *ext_acl = acl;
        int                     flags = 0;
 
-       VN_HOLD(vp);
        if(size) {
                if (!(_ACL_ALLOC(xfs_acl))) {
                        error = ENOMEM;
@@ -243,7 +242,6 @@ xfs_acl_vget(
                error = -posix_acl_xfs_to_xattr(xfs_acl, ext_acl, size);
        }
 out:
-       VN_RELE(vp);
        if(xfs_acl)
                _ACL_FREE(xfs_acl);
        return -error;
@@ -256,7 +254,6 @@ xfs_acl_vremove(
 {
        int             error;
 
-       VN_HOLD(vp);
        error = xfs_acl_allow_set(vp, kind);
        if (!error) {
                error = xfs_attr_remove(XFS_I(vp),
@@ -266,7 +263,6 @@ xfs_acl_vremove(
                if (error == ENOATTR)
                        error = 0;      /* 'scool */
        }
-       VN_RELE(vp);
        return -error;
 }
 
@@ -298,7 +294,6 @@ xfs_acl_vset(
                return 0;
        }
 
-       VN_HOLD(vp);
        error = xfs_acl_allow_set(vp, kind);
 
        /* Incoming ACL exists, set file mode based on its value */
@@ -321,7 +316,6 @@ xfs_acl_vset(
        }
 
 out:
-       VN_RELE(vp);
        _ACL_FREE(xfs_acl);
        return -error;
 }