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Commit 0c8c2053 authored by Al Viro's avatar Al Viro Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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new helper: lookup_positive_unlocked()



[ Upstream commit 6c2d4798a8d16cf4f3a28c3cd4af4f1dcbbb4d04 ]

Most of the callers of lookup_one_len_unlocked() treat negatives are
ERR_PTR(-ENOENT).  Provide a helper that would do just that.  Note
that a pinned positive dentry remains positive - it's ->d_inode is
stable, etc.; a pinned _negative_ dentry can become positive at any
point as long as you are not holding its parent at least shared.
So using lookup_one_len_unlocked() needs to be careful;
lookup_positive_unlocked() is safer and that's what the callers
end up open-coding anyway.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Stable-dep-of: 0d5a4f8f775f ("fs: Fix error checking for d_hash_and_lookup()")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 0a2b1eb8
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