Re: [PATCH] some more fixes for inode.c

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 08:54:20 EST


On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 08:06 -0500, Rik van Riel wrote:

> > but I'm not 100% sure we need that change, since
> > maybe only completely unused inodes can end up here. David ?
>
> No, I don't see any reason why that should be the case; you can get
> iput() called for an inode which happens to have data in the page cache.
> This part of the patch is needed.

OK, thanks for confirming my suspicions.

Marcelo, could you please apply the patch ?

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