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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/tracefs/event_inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c index 9e031e5a2713..110e8a272189 100644 --- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c +++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c @@ -404,9 +404,7 @@ static struct dentry *lookup_dir_entry(struct dentry *dentry, dentry->d_fsdata = get_ei(ei); - inc_nlink(inode); d_add(dentry, inode); - inc_nlink(dentry->d_parent->d_inode); return NULL; } @@ -769,9 +767,17 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry dentry->d_fsdata = get_ei(ei); - /* directory inodes start off with i_nlink == 2 (for "." entry) */ - inc_nlink(inode); + /* + * Keep all eventfs directories with i_nlink == 1. + * Due to the dynamic nature of the dentry creations and not + * wanting to add a pointer to the parent eventfs_inode in the + * eventfs_inode structure, keeping the i_nlink in sync with the + * number of directories would cause too much complexity for + * something not worth much. Keeping directory links at 1 + * tells userspace not to trust the link number. + */ d_instantiate(dentry, inode); + /* The dentry of the "events" parent does keep track though */ inc_nlink(dentry->d_parent->d_inode); fsnotify_mkdir(dentry->d_parent->d_inode, dentry); tracefs_end_creating(dentry); |