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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-02-15 07:42:59 +0100
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2011-02-15 08:26:54 +0100
commit4e924a4f53a0e1ea060bd50695a12a238b250322 (patch)
tree868af33c6c1ca390e688c8aaf19f4fe1fca2bc27 /fs
parentdrop out of RCU in return_reval (diff)
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get rid of nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu() calling nameidata_drop_rcu()
can't happen anymore and didn't work right anyway Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c8
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 10635d329175..9e701e28a329 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -455,14 +455,6 @@ static int nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu(struct nameidata *nd, struct dentry *dentry
struct fs_struct *fs = current->fs;
struct dentry *parent = nd->path.dentry;
- /*
- * It can be possible to revalidate the dentry that we started
- * the path walk with. force_reval_path may also revalidate the
- * dentry already committed to the nameidata.
- */
- if (unlikely(parent == dentry))
- return nameidata_drop_rcu(nd);
-
BUG_ON(!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU));
if (nd->root.mnt) {
spin_lock(&fs->lock);