Commit 63afdfc7 authored by David Howells's avatar David Howells Committed by Al Viro
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VFS: Handle lower layer dentry/inode in pathwalk 



Make use of d_backing_inode() in pathwalk to gain access to an
inode or dentry that's on a lower layer.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
parent 237d8b32

fs/namei.c

+5 −5
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@@ -1423,7 +1423,7 @@ static int lookup_fast(struct nameidata *nd, 
		 * This sequence count validates that the inode matches

		 * the dentry name information from lookup.

		 */

		*inode = dentry->d_inode;

		*inode = d_backing_inode(dentry);

		negative = d_is_negative(dentry);

		if (read_seqcount_retry(&dentry->d_seq, seq))

			return -ECHILD;
@@ -1483,7 +1483,7 @@ static int lookup_fast(struct nameidata *nd, 
	path->dentry = dentry;

	err = follow_managed(path, nd);

	if (likely(!err))

		*inode = path->dentry->d_inode;

		*inode = d_backing_inode(path->dentry);

	return err;



need_lookup:
@@ -1618,7 +1618,7 @@ static int walk_component(struct nameidata *nd, int flags) 
		if (err < 0)

			return err;



		inode = path.dentry->d_inode;

		inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry);

		seq = 0;	/* we are already out of RCU mode */

		err = -ENOENT;

		if (d_is_negative(path.dentry))
@@ -2471,7 +2471,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__check_sticky); 
 */

static int may_delete(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *victim, bool isdir)

{

	struct inode *inode = victim->d_inode;

	struct inode *inode = d_backing_inode(victim);

	int error;



	if (d_is_negative(victim))
@@ -3054,7 +3054,7 @@ static int do_last(struct nameidata *nd, 
		return error;



	BUG_ON(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU);

	inode = path.dentry->d_inode;

	inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry);

	seq = 0;	/* out of RCU mode, so the value doesn't matter */

	if (unlikely(d_is_negative(path.dentry))) {

		path_to_nameidata(&path, nd);

fs/open.c

+1 −1
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@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(faccessat, int, dfd, const char __user *, filename, int, mode) 
	if (res)

		goto out;



	inode = path.dentry->d_inode;

	inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry);



	if ((mode & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {

		/*