Re: [PATCH v7 3/4] ext4: introduce ext4_put_ea_inode() for safe deferred iput

[Zhou, Yun]

On 6/22/26 16:32, Jan Kara wrote:
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> On Fri 19-06-26 14:24:51, Zhou, Yun wrote:
> > Your idea makes a lot of sense. It greatly simplifies the current deferred
> > iput logic and eliminates the risk of failing to allocate an entry during
> > an OOM. However, as you mentioned, getting the VFS maintainers to agree
> > might be quite challenging.
> VFS maintainers don't bite, in the worst case they'd disagree :) For a fact
> I'm one of VFS reviewers and I think iput_if_not_last() idea is an
> acceptable one. So I think it's worth trying.
Thanks a lot for the strong support, I'd be happy to give it a try. For 
now, please
just ignore the v8 patch series, as the AI reviewer actually found some 
issues with
it as well.

BR,
Yun