[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 1/4] cifs: make cifs_lookup return a dentry

Jeff Layton jlayton at redhat.com
Fri May 21 12:42:18 MDT 2010


On Fri, 21 May 2010 14:45:55 -0400
Josef Bacik <josef at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 02:25:14PM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> > cifs_lookup doesn't actually return a dentry. It instantiates the one
> > that's passed in, but callers don't have any way to know if the lookup
> > succeeded.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  fs/cifs/dir.c |   13 +++++++++----
> >  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c
> > index 391816b..54de8e5 100644
> > --- a/fs/cifs/dir.c
> > +++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c
> > @@ -639,6 +639,7 @@ cifs_lookup(struct inode *parent_dir_inode, struct dentry *direntry,
> >  	struct inode *newInode = NULL;
> >  	char *full_path = NULL;
> >  	struct file *filp;
> > +	struct dentry *res;
> >  
> >  	xid = GetXid();
> >  
> > @@ -738,7 +739,8 @@ cifs_lookup(struct inode *parent_dir_inode, struct dentry *direntry,
> >  		/* since paths are not looked up by component - the parent
> >  		   directories are presumed to be good here */
> >  		renew_parental_timestamps(direntry);
> > -
> > +		res = direntry;
> > +		dget(res);
> >  	} else if (rc == -ENOENT) {
> >  		rc = 0;
> >  		direntry->d_time = jiffies;
> > @@ -747,17 +749,20 @@ cifs_lookup(struct inode *parent_dir_inode, struct dentry *direntry,
> >  		else
> >  			direntry->d_op = &cifs_dentry_ops;
> >  		d_add(direntry, NULL);
> > -	/*	if it was once a directory (but how can we tell?) we could do
> > -		shrink_dcache_parent(direntry); */
> > +		res = direntry;
> > +		dget(res);
> 
> Should probably do
> 
> res = dget(direntry)
> 


Ahh good catch. Will fix.

Thanks,
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>


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