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    fsnotify: fsnotify marks on inodes pin them in core · 1ef5f13c
    Eric Paris authored
    This patch pins any inodes with an fsnotify mark in core.  The idea is that
    as soon as the mark is removed from the inode->fsnotify_mark_entries list
    the inode will be iput.  In reality is doesn't quite work exactly this way.
    The igrab will happen when the mark is added to an inode, but the iput will
    happen when the inode pointer is NULL'd inside the mark.
    
    It's possible that 2 racing things will try to remove the mark from
    different directions.  One may try to remove the mark because of an
    explicit request and one might try to remove it because the inode was
    deleted.  It's possible that the removal because of inode deletion will
    remove the mark from the inode's list, but the removal by explicit request
    will actually set entry->inode == NULL; and call the iput.  This is safe.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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