From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> Doing revalidate on a dentry which has not yet been looked up makes no sense. Move the d_need_lookup() check before d_revalidate(). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 46ea9cc..599e4a0 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1139,6 +1139,8 @@ static int do_lookup(struct nameidata *nd, struct qstr *name, return -ECHILD; nd->seq = seq; + if (unlikely(d_need_lookup(dentry))) + goto unlazy; if (unlikely(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE)) { status = d_revalidate(dentry, nd); if (unlikely(status <= 0)) { @@ -1147,8 +1149,6 @@ static int do_lookup(struct nameidata *nd, struct qstr *name, goto unlazy; } } - if (unlikely(d_need_lookup(dentry))) - goto unlazy; path->mnt = mnt; path->dentry = dentry; if (unlikely(!__follow_mount_rcu(nd, path, inode))) -- 1.7.7 -- 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