From 63afdfc781e10c6b3ec38274e6163422876caa9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Howells Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 15:59:00 +0100 Subject: VFS: Handle lower layer dentry/inode in pathwalk Make use of d_backing_inode() in pathwalk to gain access to an inode or dentry that's on a lower layer. Signed-off-by: David Howells --- fs/namei.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/namei.c') diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 366b0f348d1c..bcacb3100317 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ static int lookup_fast(struct nameidata *nd, * This sequence count validates that the inode matches * the dentry name information from lookup. */ - *inode = dentry->d_inode; + *inode = d_backing_inode(dentry); negative = d_is_negative(dentry); if (read_seqcount_retry(&dentry->d_seq, seq)) return -ECHILD; @@ -1483,7 +1483,7 @@ unlazy: path->dentry = dentry; err = follow_managed(path, nd); if (likely(!err)) - *inode = path->dentry->d_inode; + *inode = d_backing_inode(path->dentry); return err; need_lookup: @@ -1618,7 +1618,7 @@ static int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, int flags) if (err < 0) return err; - inode = path.dentry->d_inode; + inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); seq = 0; /* we are already out of RCU mode */ err = -ENOENT; if (d_is_negative(path.dentry)) @@ -2471,7 +2471,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__check_sticky); */ static int may_delete(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *victim, bool isdir) { - struct inode *inode = victim->d_inode; + struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(victim); int error; if (d_is_negative(victim)) @@ -3054,7 +3054,7 @@ retry_lookup: return error; BUG_ON(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU); - inode = path.dentry->d_inode; + inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry); seq = 0; /* out of RCU mode, so the value doesn't matter */ if (unlikely(d_is_negative(path.dentry))) { path_to_nameidata(&path, nd); -- cgit v1.2.3