Re: unused fs/jffs2/acl.c:jffs2_clear_acl()

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David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 15:01 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
>>it might not have been intended that jffs2_clear_acl() in Linus' tree
>>is unused?
> 
> 
> I suspect you're right -- thanks for pointing it out.
> 
> Kaigai-san?

I'm sorry, it's a serious BUG.
When an inode is cleared, jffs2_clear_acl() should be called
to release on-memory ACL. Because the current implementation
didn't care about this cleaning-up, we have memory-leaking.

Please wait a patch for a while.

Thanks,
-- 
KaiGai Kohei <[email protected]>
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