Hi Jack, On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Jack David <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay, I tried container_of, but it did not work. So I tried > d_obtain_alias() which worked. > > But I am not sure if I have to make a call to dput() as well in order > to free the dentry obtained. > Anyone can confirm this?
since d_obtain_alias() calls dput when something goes wrong after allocating the dentry, I'm assuming that you also have to call dput to free the dentry. Philipp _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
