On Aug 14, 2002 10:34 -0500, Eli Carter wrote:
> (I'm looking at a 2.2 kernel, but I doubt this has changed.) In ext2, as
> well as many other fs's, there appears a line much like this in their
> 'struct file_system_type.read_super()' function:
>
> sb->s_root = d_alloc_root(iget(sb, EXT2_ROOT_INO), NULL);
>
> Now, I was under the impression that for each iget(), you need to have
> an iput() when you're done with the inode... which in this case would
> mean an iput() in 'struct super_operations.put_super()'... but I don't
> see one there.
The dput(root) is done in fs/super.c (kill_super in 2.4).
Cheers, Andreas
-- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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