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    coda: remove CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcalls · d3fec424
    Jan Harkes authored
    This is an variation on the patch sent by Christoph Hellwig which kills
    file_count abuse by the Coda kernel module by moving the coda_flush
    functionality into coda_release.  However part of reason we were using the
    coda_flush callback was to allow Coda to pass errors that occur during
    writeback from the userspace cache manager back to close().
    
    As Al Viro explained on linux-fsdevel, it is impossible to guarantee that
    such errors can in fact be returned back to the caller.  There are many
    cases where the last reference to a file is not released by the close
    system call and it is also impossible to pick some close as a 'last-close'
    and delay it until all other references have been destroyed.
    
    The CODA_STORE/CODA_RELEASE upcall combination is clearly a broken design,
    and it is better to remove it completely.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
    Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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