Re: + ext3-and-jbd-cleanup-replace-brelse-to-put_bh.patch added to -mm tree

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 02:59:41 +0400
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 06:46:13PM -0700, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> > Replace all brelse() calls with put_bh().  Because brelse() is
> > old-fashioned, has a weird name and neelessly permits a NULL
> 
> > --- a/fs/ext3/balloc.c~ext3-and-jbd-cleanup-replace-brelse-to-put_bh
> > +++ a/fs/ext3/balloc.c
> > @@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ do_more:
> >  		overflow = bit + count - EXT3_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb);
> >  		count -= overflow;
> >  	}
> > -	brelse(bitmap_bh);
> > +	put_bh(bitmap_bh);
> 
> Is it safe to always s/brelse/put_bh/ ? Or someone has to audit every
> occurence for this "neelessly permits a NULL"?

Yeah, it crashed all over the place.

I'd be inclined to give up on this idea.  Life's too short.
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