Commit f374ed5f authored Mar 09, 2011 by Al Viro

do_last: kill a rudiment of old ->d_revalidate() workaround



There used to be time when ->d_revalidate() couldn't return an error.
So intents code had lookup_instantiate_filp() stash ERR_PTR(error)
in nd->intent.open.filp and had it checked after lookup_hash(), to
catch the otherwise silent failures.  That had been introduced by
commit 4af4c52f.  These days
->d_revalidate() can and does propagate errors back to callers
explicitly, so this check isn't needed anymore.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

parent 6c0d46c4

fs/namei.c

+0 −5

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		@@ -2183,11 +2183,6 @@ static struct file do_last(struct nameidata nd, struct path *path,
		path->dentry = dentry;
		path->mnt = nd->path.mnt;

		if (IS_ERR(nd->intent.open.file)) {
		error = PTR_ERR(nd->intent.open.file);
		goto exit_mutex_unlock;
		}

		/* Negative dentry, just create the file */
		if (!dentry->d_inode) {
		int mode = op->mode;