Unclear if this case ever happens, but if no inode in dentry, then the dentry is definitely invalid. Seemed to be the opposite in the existing code. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/9p/vfs_dentry.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_dentry.c b/fs/9p/vfs_dentry.c index 65fa2df5e49b..b0c3f8e8ea00 100644 --- a/fs/9p/vfs_dentry.c +++ b/fs/9p/vfs_dentry.c @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ static int v9fs_lookup_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags) inode = d_inode(dentry); if (!inode) - goto out_valid; + return 0; v9inode = V9FS_I(inode); if (v9inode->cache_validity & V9FS_INO_INVALID_ATTR) { @@ -91,7 +91,6 @@ static int v9fs_lookup_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags) if (retval < 0) return retval; } -out_valid: return 1; } -- 2.37.2