On Thu, 28 Sep 2023 16:23:41 +0100, Luís Henriques wrote: > Because 'inode' is being initialised before checking if 'dentry' is negative > it looks like an extra iput() on 'inode' may happen since the ihold() is > done only if the dentry is *not* negative. In reality this doesn't happen > because d_is_negative() is never true if ->d_inode is NULL. This patch only > makes the code easier to understand, as I was initially mislead by it. > > > [...] Applied to the vfs.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree. Patches in the vfs.misc branch should appear in linux-next soon. Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it. It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated. Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase, trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch. tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git branch: vfs.misc [1/1] fs: simplify misleading code to remove ambiguity regarding ihold()/iput() https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/5c29bcfaa4cf
