vfs_handle_struct->data usage

[Volker Lendecke]

On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 11:41:38AM +0900, Linux wrote:
> I'm writing a module that is extended version of vfs_audit.
> In that module I need to keep some data storage while
> conn is up. Then I found there's a member "data" in
> vfs_handle_struct which seems not being used in smbd
> sources, it just gets freed in conn_free if alloc'ed.
> So I thought I could use it to hold malloc'ed memory storage
> until close() gets called as module private storage.
> Would it be problematic in some case or  possibly stomping
> "data" storage in some case?

The data member of the vfs_handle_struct is exactly made for
this.

What do you want to achieve with your module? You might want
to start from the full_audit module, there all operations
are redirected.

Volker
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