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| author | Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> | 2007-07-21 04:37:26 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-07-21 17:49:14 -0700 |
| commit | d3fec424b23c47686efcf3f2004c3f1c1cee4d9c (patch) | |
| tree | ffad3cf369d35e85fca9a340347eea09caa53ff3 /fs/coda/dir.c | |
| parent | b50731732f926d6c49fd0724616a7344c31cd5cf (diff) | |
coda: remove CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcalls
This is an variation on the patch sent by Christoph Hellwig which kills
file_count abuse by the Coda kernel module by moving the coda_flush
functionality into coda_release. However part of reason we were using the
coda_flush callback was to allow Coda to pass errors that occur during
writeback from the userspace cache manager back to close().
As Al Viro explained on linux-fsdevel, it is impossible to guarantee that
such errors can in fact be returned back to the caller. There are many
cases where the last reference to a file is not released by the close
system call and it is also impossible to pick some close as a 'last-close'
and delay it until all other references have been destroyed.
The CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcall combination is clearly a broken design,
and it is better to remove it completely.
Signed-off-by: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/coda/dir.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/coda/dir.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/coda/dir.c b/fs/coda/dir.c index 8e61236abf4..f89ff083079 100644 --- a/fs/coda/dir.c +++ b/fs/coda/dir.c @@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ const struct file_operations coda_dir_operations = { .read = generic_read_dir, .readdir = coda_readdir, .open = coda_open, - .flush = coda_flush, .release = coda_release, .fsync = coda_fsync, }; |