badly, at that... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c b/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c index c0fe3295c330..cbaf6d35e854 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c +++ b/drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c @@ -1039,6 +1039,7 @@ static unsigned int ibmvmc_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait) static ssize_t ibmvmc_write(struct file *file, const char *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { + struct inode *inode; struct ibmvmc_buffer *vmc_buffer; struct ibmvmc_file_session *session; struct crq_server_adapter *adapter; @@ -1122,8 +1123,9 @@ static ssize_t ibmvmc_write(struct file *file, const char *buffer, if (p == buffer) goto out; - file->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mtime = current_time(file_inode(file)); - mark_inode_dirty(file->f_path.dentry->d_inode); + inode = file_inode(file); + inode->i_mtime = current_time(inode); + mark_inode_dirty(inode); dev_dbg(adapter->dev, "write: file = 0x%lx, count = 0x%lx\n", (unsigned long)file, (unsigned long)count); -- 2.30.2