From: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
atomic_open can be called with a hashed-negative dentry or an in-lookup
dentry. Rather than d_drop() and d_add() we can use d_splice_alias()
which keeps the dentry hashed - important for proposed locking changes.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
---
fs/smb/client/dir.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/dir.c b/fs/smb/client/dir.c
index cecbc0cce5c5..361a20987927 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/dir.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/dir.c
@@ -439,8 +439,7 @@ static int cifs_do_create(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, unsigned
goto out_err;
}
- d_drop(direntry);
- d_add(direntry, newinode);
+ d_splice_alias(newinode, direntry);
out:
free_dentry_path(page);
--
2.50.0.107.gf914562f5916.dirty