Re: [PATCH] cleanup for fixing get_super() races

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> Each of these places is an oopsable race with umount. We can't fix them
> without touching a lot of drivers. However, we can make the future fix
> easier if we put the above into a helper function. Patch below does that.

I don't like the name "ream_inodes()".

Also, a driver shouldn't know about "inodes" and "buffers". It should just
do something like

	invalidate_device(dev);

because the only thing the driver knows about is the _device_.

Then, invalidate_device() might do 

	sb = get_super(dev)
	if (sb)
		invalidate_inodes (sb);
	invalidate_buffers(dev);

which makes some amount of sense. And which can later be extended to deal
with the page cache etc without the drivers ever knowing or caring.

		Linus