On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 14:17 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> and that changelog doesn't really explain it either ("fix leak"? Ok, I can
> see the iput() fixing the leak - but you also did that jffs2_clear_inode()
> change, and that has no explanation what-so-ever.
jffs2_clear_inode() is the file system's ->clear_inode method, so it
gets called from the VFS when the inode is destroyed, after iput().
I suppose that ought to have been a clue, right from the very beginning,
that we should never have been calling it directly on our error paths.
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David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
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