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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/tracefs/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/tracefs/inode.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/fs/tracefs/inode.c b/fs/tracefs/inode.c index 5b54948514fe..ae648deed019 100644 --- a/fs/tracefs/inode.c +++ b/fs/tracefs/inode.c @@ -509,20 +509,15 @@ struct dentry *eventfs_start_creating(const char *name, struct dentry *parent) struct dentry *dentry; int error; + /* Must always have a parent. */ + if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!parent)) + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL); + error = simple_pin_fs(&trace_fs_type, &tracefs_mount, &tracefs_mount_count); if (error) return ERR_PTR(error); - /* - * If the parent is not specified, we create it in the root. - * We need the root dentry to do this, which is in the super - * block. A pointer to that is in the struct vfsmount that we - * have around. - */ - if (!parent) - parent = tracefs_mount->mnt_root; - if (unlikely(IS_DEADDIR(parent->d_inode))) dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); else |