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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 48fc0fb8c9d1..9ce43a358c33 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1173,7 +1173,6 @@ retry: BUG_ON(nd->inode != dir); mutex_lock(&dir->i_mutex); -l: dentry = d_lookup(parent, name); if (likely(!dentry)) { dentry = d_alloc_and_lookup(parent, name, nd); @@ -1204,9 +1203,14 @@ l: } if (!d_invalidate(dentry)) { dput(dentry); - dentry = NULL; - need_reval = 1; - goto l; + dentry = d_alloc_and_lookup(parent, name, nd); + if (IS_ERR(dentry)) { + mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex); + return PTR_ERR(dentry); + } + /* known good */ + need_reval = 0; + status = 1; } } mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex); |