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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-10 20:06:18 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-05-11 04:52:35 +0200
commit8c01a529b861ba97c7d78368e6a5d4d42e946f75 (patch)
tree933b5a95604674d0534b0290d8c3633425989f62
parentvfs: clean up __d_lookup_rcu() and dentry_cmp() interfaces (diff)
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vfs: remove unnecessary d_unhashed() check from __d_lookup_rcu
The check for d_unhashed() is not strictly incorrect, but at the same time it is also not sensible. The actual dentry removal from the dentry hash chains is totally asynchronous to the __d_lookup_rcu() logic, and we depend on __d_drop() updating the sequence number to invalidate any lookup of an unhashed dentry. So checking d_unhashed() is not incorrect, but it's not useful either: the code has to work correctly even without it. So just remove it. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/dcache.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 539943eb442c..c4d2ff8b4912 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1871,8 +1871,6 @@ seqretry:
seq = raw_seqcount_begin(&dentry->d_seq);
if (dentry->d_parent != parent)
continue;
- if (d_unhashed(dentry))
- continue;
*seqp = seq;
if (unlikely(parent->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_COMPARE)) {