On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 11:24:55AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > On Tue, Jun 06, 2023 at 09:39:49AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Store the file struct used as the holder in file->private_data as an > > indicator that this file descriptor was opened exclusively to remove > > the last use of FMODE_EXCL. > > > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > > --- > > Feels a bit odd to store the object itself but anyway, > Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> We could literally store anything we want. The only reason I picked the file is because: a) we have it around and b) that allows passing it to blkdev_put without a branch in blkdev_release. If you prefer something else I can change it.
