Re: [PATCH V3 04/12] kernfs: don't set dentry->d_fsdata

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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 11:17:12AM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
> From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>
> 
> When working on adding exportfs operations in kernfs, I found it's hard
> to initialize dentry->d_fsdata in the exportfs operations. Looks there
> is no way to do it without race condition. Look at the kernfs code
> closely, there is no point to set dentry->d_fsdata. inode->i_private
> already points to kernfs_node, and we can get inode from a dentry. So
> this patch just delete the d_fsdata usage.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun



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