Re: [PATCH 2/4] locks: fix leaks on setlease errors

[J. Bruce Fields]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 07:10:57AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 05:31:14PM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> > We're depending on setlease to free the passed-in lease on failure.
> 
> But we would be much better to just free it in the caller.  I'ts much
> more natural - caller allocates, caller frees, and it's also simpler.
> 
> I'll send a patch to do so shortly, together with sorting out the
> remaining nfs4d lock_manager_operations abuses.  I think we're set with
> that for 2.6.37, the setlease split can wait once we've sorted out the
> lock freeing issue.

I also have patches that get rid of fl_release_private, fl_mylease, and
(almost done) fl_change.

Unless you've a better suggestion I'll probably send them out for review
and then queue them up with other nfsd changes for 2.6.38.

--b.
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