vfat_d_anon_disconn() is called only if alias->d_parent is equal to
dentry->d_parent *and* it returns false unless alias->d_parent == alias.
But in that case alias is the directory we are doing lookup in, and
d_splice_alias() would've done the right thing.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c b/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c
index 2649759c478a..4f4362d5a04c 100644
--- a/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c
+++ b/fs/fat/namei_vfat.c
@@ -697,15 +697,6 @@ static int vfat_find(struct inode *dir, const struct qstr *qname,
return fat_search_long(dir, qname->name, len, sinfo);
}
-/*
- * (nfsd's) anonymous disconnected dentry?
- * NOTE: !IS_ROOT() is not anonymous (I.e. d_splice_alias() did the job).
- */
-static int vfat_d_anon_disconn(struct dentry *dentry)
-{
- return IS_ROOT(dentry) && (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED);
-}
-
static struct dentry *vfat_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
unsigned int flags)
{
@@ -738,8 +729,7 @@ static struct dentry *vfat_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
* Checking "alias->d_parent == dentry->d_parent" to make sure
* FS is not corrupted (especially double linked dir).
*/
- if (alias && alias->d_parent == dentry->d_parent &&
- !vfat_d_anon_disconn(alias)) {
+ if (alias && alias->d_parent == dentry->d_parent) {
/*
* This inode has non anonymous-DCACHE_DISCONNECTED
* dentry. This means, the user did ->lookup() by an
@@ -747,7 +737,6 @@ static struct dentry *vfat_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
*
* Switch to new one for reason of locality if possible.
*/
- BUG_ON(d_unhashed(alias));
if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
d_move(alias, dentry);
iput(inode);
