From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> We'll be using dentry->d_inode in one more place. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 61f6076..7e76fe1 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3386,6 +3386,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(rmdir, const char __user *, pathname) int vfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) { + struct inode *target = dentry->d_inode; int error = may_delete(dir, dentry, 0); if (error) @@ -3394,7 +3395,7 @@ int vfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) if (!dir->i_op->unlink) return -EPERM; - mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); + mutex_lock(&target->i_mutex); if (d_mountpoint(dentry)) error = -EBUSY; else { @@ -3405,11 +3406,11 @@ int vfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry) dont_mount(dentry); } } - mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&target->i_mutex); /* We don't d_delete() NFS sillyrenamed files--they still exist. */ if (!error && !(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED)) { - fsnotify_link_count(dentry->d_inode); + fsnotify_link_count(target); d_delete(dentry); } -- 1.7.9.5 -- 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