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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/namei.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 4bb889fc980b..f761cafaeaad 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2917,7 +2917,8 @@ static int lookup_one_common(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, * @base: base directory to lookup from * * Look up a dentry by name in the dcache, returning NULL if it does not - * currently exist. The function does not try to create a dentry. + * currently exist. The function does not try to create a dentry and if one + * is found it doesn't try to revalidate it. * * Note that this routine is purely a helper for filesystem usage and should * not be called by generic code. It does no permission checking. @@ -2933,7 +2934,7 @@ struct dentry *try_lookup_noperm(struct qstr *name, struct dentry *base) if (err) return ERR_PTR(err); - return lookup_dcache(name, base, 0); + return d_lookup(base, name); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(try_lookup_noperm); @@ -3057,14 +3058,22 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(lookup_one_positive_unlocked); * Note that this routine is purely a helper for filesystem usage and should * not be called by generic code. It does no permission checking. * - * Unlike lookup_noperm, it should be called without the parent + * Unlike lookup_noperm(), it should be called without the parent * i_rwsem held, and will take the i_rwsem itself if necessary. + * + * Unlike try_lookup_noperm() it *does* revalidate the dentry if it already + * existed. */ struct dentry *lookup_noperm_unlocked(struct qstr *name, struct dentry *base) { struct dentry *ret; + int err; - ret = try_lookup_noperm(name, base); + err = lookup_noperm_common(name, base); + if (err) + return ERR_PTR(err); + + ret = lookup_dcache(name, base, 0); if (!ret) ret = lookup_slow(name, base, 0); return ret; |