This serves no useful purpose that I can discern. All callers (rename, rmdir) hold their own reference to the dentry. A quick audit of all file systems showed no relevant checks on the value of d_count in vfs_rmdir/vfs_rename_dir paths. Signed-off-by: Sage Weil <sage@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hpfs/namei.c | 3 --- fs/namei.c | 5 +---- fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 1 - 3 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/hpfs/namei.c b/fs/hpfs/namei.c index f4ad9e3..00c8218 100644 --- a/fs/hpfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/hpfs/namei.c @@ -415,7 +415,6 @@ again: mutex_unlock(&hpfs_i(inode)->i_parent_mutex); dentry_unhash(dentry); if (!d_unhashed(dentry)) { - dput(dentry); unlock_kernel(); return -ENOSPC; } @@ -423,7 +422,6 @@ again: !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) || get_write_access(inode)) { d_rehash(dentry); - dput(dentry); } else { struct iattr newattrs; /*printk("HPFS: truncating file before delete.\n");*/ @@ -431,7 +429,6 @@ again: newattrs.ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE | ATTR_CTIME; err = notify_change(dentry, &newattrs); put_write_access(inode); - dput(dentry); if (!err) goto again; } diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index f47a5c0..316e89b 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2819,10 +2819,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(mkdir, const char __user *, pathname, int, mode) */ void dentry_unhash(struct dentry *dentry) { - dget(dentry); shrink_dcache_parent(dentry); spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); - if (dentry->d_count == 2) + if (dentry->d_count == 1) __d_drop(dentry); spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); } @@ -2849,7 +2848,6 @@ int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) dentry->d_inode->i_flags |= S_DEAD; dont_mount(dentry); } - dput(dentry); } } mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); @@ -3260,7 +3258,6 @@ static int vfs_rename_dir(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry, mutex_unlock(&target->i_mutex); if (d_unhashed(new_dentry)) d_rehash(new_dentry); - dput(new_dentry); } if (!error) if (!(old_dir->i_sb->s_type->fs_flags & FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE)) diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c index 5c11ca8..7451ec4 100644 --- a/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c +++ b/fs/reiserfs/xattr.c @@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ static int xattr_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); if (!error) d_delete(dentry); - dput(dentry); return error; } -- 1.7.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html