Commit 92f6c178 authored Sep 24, 2007 by Chuck Lever Committed by Trond Myklebust Oct 09, 2007

NFS: Don't call nfs_renew_times() in nfs_dentry_iput()



Negative dentries need to be reverified after an asynchronous unlink.

Quoth Trond:

"Unfortunately I don't think that we can avoid revalidating the
resulting negative dentry since the UNLINK call is asynchronous,
and so the new verifier on the directory will only be known a
posteriori."

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

parent 1321d8d9

fs/nfs/dir.c

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Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -872,8 +872,6 @@ static void nfs_dentry_iput(struct dentry dentry, struct inode inode)
		nfs_complete_unlink(dentry, inode);
		unlock_kernel();
		}
		/* When creating a negative dentry, we want to renew d_time */
		nfs_renew_times(dentry);
		iput(inode);
		}