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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/dcache.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/dcache.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index cc2b93802179..9d1a59dfda0b 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -1483,41 +1483,30 @@ out: } /** - * d_validate - verify dentry provided from insecure source + * d_validate - verify dentry provided from insecure source (deprecated) * @dentry: The dentry alleged to be valid child of @dparent * @dparent: The parent dentry (known to be valid) * * An insecure source has sent us a dentry, here we verify it and dget() it. * This is used by ncpfs in its readdir implementation. * Zero is returned in the dentry is invalid. + * + * This function is slow for big directories, and deprecated, do not use it. */ - int d_validate(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *dparent) { - struct hlist_head *base; - struct hlist_node *lhp; - - /* Check whether the ptr might be valid at all.. */ - if (!kmem_ptr_validate(dentry_cache, dentry)) - goto out; - - if (dentry->d_parent != dparent) - goto out; + struct dentry *child; spin_lock(&dcache_lock); - base = d_hash(dparent, dentry->d_name.hash); - hlist_for_each(lhp,base) { - /* hlist_for_each_entry_rcu() not required for d_hash list - * as it is parsed under dcache_lock - */ - if (dentry == hlist_entry(lhp, struct dentry, d_hash)) { + list_for_each_entry(child, &dparent->d_subdirs, d_u.d_child) { + if (dentry == child) { __dget_locked(dentry); spin_unlock(&dcache_lock); return 1; } } spin_unlock(&dcache_lock); -out: + return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(d_validate); |