[PATCH 2/6] vfs: don't revalidate just looked up dentry

[Miklos Szeredi]

From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>

__lookup_hash() calls ->lookup() if the dentry needs lookup and on success
revalidates the dentry (all under dir->i_mutex).

While this is harmless it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/namei.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 599e4a0..c93ea6d 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1746,9 +1746,7 @@ static struct dentry *__lookup_hash(struct qstr *name,
 		 * __lookup_hash is called with the parent dir's i_mutex already
 		 * held, so we are good to go here.
 		 */
-		dentry = d_inode_lookup(base, dentry, nd);
-		if (IS_ERR(dentry))
-			return dentry;
+		return d_inode_lookup(base, dentry, nd);
 	}
 
 	if (dentry && (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE)) {
-- 
1.7.7

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