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 d5f8c8a..b1c72a9 100644
--- a/fs/hpfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/hpfs/namei.c
@@ -414,7 +414,6 @@ again:
mutex_unlock(&hpfs_i(inode)->i_parent_mutex);
dentry_unhash(dentry);
if (!d_unhashed(dentry)) {
- dput(dentry);
hpfs_unlock(dir->i_sb);
return -ENOSPC;
}
@@ -422,7 +421,6 @@ 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");*/
@@ -430,7 +428,6 @@ 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 d71c035..058302a 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2645,10 +2645,9 @@ 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);
}
@@ -2675,7 +2674,6 @@ 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);
@@ -3102,7 +3100,6 @@ 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 47d2a44..50f1abc 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;
}
--
1.7.1
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