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Commit 8c01a529 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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vfs: remove unnecessary d_unhashed() check from __d_lookup_rcu



The check for d_unhashed() is not strictly incorrect, but at the same
time it is also not sensible.  The actual dentry removal from the dentry
hash chains is totally asynchronous to the __d_lookup_rcu() logic, and
we depend on __d_drop() updating the sequence number to invalidate any
lookup of an unhashed dentry.

So checking d_unhashed() is not incorrect, but it's not useful either:
the code has to work correctly even without it. So just remove it.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 12f8ad4b
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