Re: [PATCH 2/3] ceph: take a reference to the dentry in d_find_any_alias()

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On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 06:05:14PM -0800, Sage Weil wrote:
> From: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The ceph code duplicates __d_find_any_alias(), but it currently
> does not take a reference to the returned dentry as it should.
> Replace the ceph implementation with an exact copy of what's
> found in "fs/dcache.c", and update the callers so they drop
> their reference when they're done with it.
> 
> Unfortunately this requires the wholesale copy of the functions
> that implement __dget().  It would be much nicer to just export
> d_find_any_alias() from "fs/dcache.c" instead.

Just exporting it would indeed be much better.

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