Nothing ever reads ->d_time of exfat dentries. Remove the assignments, especially since exfat_lookup() one is actually oopsable - d_splice_alias() may return ERR_PTR()... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c index 3b2b0ceb7297..063a0d0016bf 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c +++ b/drivers/staging/exfat/exfat_super.c @@ -2394,7 +2394,6 @@ static int exfat_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, * timestamp is already written, so mark_inode_dirty() is unnecessary. */ - dentry->d_time = GET_IVERSION(dentry->d_parent->d_inode); d_instantiate(dentry, inode); out: @@ -2479,10 +2478,7 @@ static struct dentry *exfat_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, dput(alias); out: __unlock_super(sb); - dentry->d_time = GET_IVERSION(dentry->d_parent->d_inode); dentry = d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); - if (dentry) - dentry->d_time = GET_IVERSION(dentry->d_parent->d_inode); pr_debug("%s exited 2\n", __func__); return dentry; @@ -2620,7 +2616,6 @@ static int exfat_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, goto out; } - dentry->d_time = GET_IVERSION(dentry->d_parent->d_inode); d_instantiate(dentry, inode); out: @@ -2674,7 +2669,6 @@ static int exfat_mkdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode) inode->i_mtime = inode->i_atime = inode->i_ctime = current_time(inode); /* timestamp is already written, so mark_inode_dirty() is unneeded. */ - dentry->d_time = GET_IVERSION(dentry->d_parent->d_inode); d_instantiate(dentry, inode); out: