From 4e924a4f53a0e1ea060bd50695a12a238b250322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:42:59 -0500 Subject: get rid of nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu() calling nameidata_drop_rcu() can't happen anymore and didn't work right anyway Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/namei.c | 8 -------- 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 10635d329175..9e701e28a329 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -455,14 +455,6 @@ static int nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu(struct nameidata *nd, struct dentry *dentry struct fs_struct *fs = current->fs; struct dentry *parent = nd->path.dentry; - /* - * It can be possible to revalidate the dentry that we started - * the path walk with. force_reval_path may also revalidate the - * dentry already committed to the nameidata. - */ - if (unlikely(parent == dentry)) - return nameidata_drop_rcu(nd); - BUG_ON(!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU)); if (nd->root.mnt) { spin_lock(&fs->lock); -- cgit v1.2.3