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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2016-05-20 22:13:45 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2016-05-20 22:13:45 +0200
commita118084432d642eeccb961c7c8cc61525a941fcb (patch)
tree13583657704b821ad875c0d2fbacab07fc50f53d /include
parentLinux 4.6 (diff)
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vfs: add d_real_inode() helper
Needed by the following fix. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dcache.h12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 7e9422cb5989..ad5d582f9b14 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -576,5 +576,17 @@ static inline struct inode *vfs_select_inode(struct dentry *dentry,
return inode;
}
+/**
+ * d_real_inode - Return the real inode
+ * @dentry: The dentry to query
+ *
+ * If dentry is on an union/overlay, then return the underlying, real inode.
+ * Otherwise return d_inode().
+ */
+static inline struct inode *d_real_inode(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+ return d_backing_inode(d_real(dentry));
+}
+
#endif /* __LINUX_DCACHE_H */