From 4e924a4f53a0e1ea060bd50695a12a238b250322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:42:59 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
fs/namei.c | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 10635d3291759..9e701e28a329a 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);
--
2.39.5