[PATCH 6/6] move inode allocation out xfs_iread

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Wed Nov 12 03:44:15 CST 2008


On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:50:58PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Hmmmm - what happened to the patch I sent that moved this till
> after ip->i_mount() was initialised? Hmmm - looks like it
> went missing. Ah - christoph's fix for the security inode
> leak was taken, so the patch I had that included this change
> was dropped. Looks like we still need that part of my patch.
> 
> I'll have to resend it, and it needs to go in ASAP as
> inode_init_always() can call ->destroy_inode, so the above is a
> double free or a panic in xfs_ireclaim(). This patch will then need
> to be rediffed on top of it.

Still a little confused about which patch you mean.  Care to resend it
ASAP?



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